This was taken in the October after Maxi-Minor_furie was born (he was born end of July, so he was three month's old)
Of course, there was no point in him actually going on the ride, at that age it's no different to being in a pram or something (other than the fact I was holding him, so it was close contact).
We were lucky though that MMF grew big and strong quickly. He was able to hold himself upright strongly at an early age.
He's always come with us to parks, and we've always let him have a say on what he wants to do. As long as he's tall enough and with my prior experience I've considered him "stable" enough to ride - he's been on what he wants.
Some successes (he loved frog hoppers and RMT at Alton), some failures (he cried on his first ride of Beastie) - generally just turned two here.
I'm very concious of the fact he needs to be a child though. He needs to not be forced onto the biggest thing he can ride on, but to enjoy what he enjoys. At Drayton for instance, we spend a LOT of time on Pirate Adventure which he adores, but very little time on the coasters or flat rides.
He's now tall enough for both Spinball and Th13teen at Alton, but he didn't ride either on Sunday - we had a lovely kiddie day in the farm yard, round the Sealife centre and in Cloud Cuckoo Land. He
wants to ride both, but he's in no rush - so I think we've got the balance right. He doesn't fear rides, but he's not rejecting having fun for the sake of "ticking boxes".
As I say, he's big for age (not five yet) so it's been different for him (also because of the environment we've raised him obviously). I'd usually say that most kids it's a little older before they start to enjoy rides, but too young is simply not emotionally or physically capable of dealing with the ride. That is completely different per child, but for a child under a certain age (maybe 8 or 9 or something?), cajoling or forcing them onto a ride is a bad thing.