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Originally Posted by Seahawk
At the risk of sounding like Frank Sinatra, the key is you know how to do (be do be do)...most kids today never get to the first do.
Music. My wife is a very good musician, piano and organ. We also forced the kids to play an instrument. My son is very good, but began to feel that playing in the concert band wasn't up to his standard of cool (varsity sports letter as a freshman, etc.).
My advice to him was that if he planned on driving, he may want to explore keeping his first chair in the concert band.
It now seems that the school he wants to attend values the arts as much as they value his legs.
I really believe hard work is learned either from necessity, by direction or from desire for more.
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Yeah, very well said. We still do a lot of stuff just because I want my kids to learn how to do it.
I don't push them too hard on things that they should enjoy though. I used to be a professional musician but I don't force my kids to play. I play because one day I just realized that there is nothing in the world I'd rather do. On the flip side of that, my parents are really into gardening and had almost a quarter acre of just vegetable gardens, along with several smaller flower beds, paths, etc. They pushed me so hard to work on all that stuff that to this day I still don't like gardening.