Stay home, use Italian dry flies - a.k.a. French bread crusts - and you'll have just as much fun. Some fishing, like winter steelheading. Fishing is, you see, far to simple and silly to deserve all this hype. Kids know this.
Kids can catch panfish with cane poles and bait at the nearest pond and have a great time.
Too bad most of us have lost the kid in us that keeps our live simple. I suspect we'd all be better off taking a kid out after panfish to recapture a time when all fish are big and the pleasure of the day isn't tied to the results. With trout a fish an hour makes me smile and this is about the same for bass and most smaller saltwater species. Bigger fish just take longer, but with appropriate tackle aren't any more fun.