As I always say, enjoy all the moments in life, putting up a mast in 90+ deg heat is just as enjoyable as a screaming reach in 15kts, (well almost, anyway)
the only problem with kids is that their parents keep asking them what they want to be when they grow up and that puts them thinking in the future all the time. if you can bring them back to the present and ask them what they want to feel right now, and see if putting up the mast might forward their feeling of accomplishment and then their feeling of joy.
yes all you with no idea what I am talking about can now trash me for being a hippy, pot smoker if you like. (I do not smoke pot, and am bald).
The problem with sailing is not in the details, it is in the experience of it, not enough people experience it, take a friend sailing and then take their kids sailing, and then take a stranger sailing, after a while many people will be in your neighborhood asking if you want to go sailing with them.