It's okay to have conditions. Your job is to be a fan of your kids. Rodney Mullen, perhaps the greatest skateboarder of all time, felt some deep-seeded attraction to skateboarding as a kid. His father was nervous about the whole thing and thought he'd give up on it because it was hard. But when Mullen begged and begged and begged for a skateboard, his father did exactly what we've talked about. He supported him, but with conditions.