"You Have To Pick Your Kids Hobbies"

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I don’t think Dan Martell is wrong.

Don’t many Asian/immigrant parents tell their kids they gonna be doctors, not grasshopper reproduction? Don’t many higher social classes put their kids in ballet, piano lessons, etc and it allows those kids and Families to network with each other
 

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It helps if the parents or family they're around have hobbies. Kids get curious & make the :ehh:, :gladbron: faces when they see something 'cool'


My younger cousins got into sports when I used to take them to the park. Then music while watching me messing around on the keys
 

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Kids do what they see their parents do.

If you sit around and watch Netflix. So will they.

If you sit down with a book. So will they.

If you do active things like workout, play sports. So will they.

It's not just a one time thing. "They saw me read once, they never sat down and picked up a book".

You do what you do more than you tell them or guide them what to do. They learn more by what's going on in your lifestyle.
 

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It helps if the parents or family they're around have hobbies. Kids get curious & make the :ehh:, :gladbron: faces when they see something 'cool'


My younger cousins got into sports when I used to take them to the park. Then music while watching me messing around on the keys


its rare you meet a cool breh with a lame dad
 

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if life events hadn't happened I would have probably been a consistent poster of the arcadium

but then there's the possibility I woulda never found this site.. which means I would have never been born :mjcry:
 

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He sounds like a tool. You support guide and support your children's passion. It's not about having a second crack at life through them.

Most kids will take an interest in some physical sport, some instrument so it shouldn't be challenging.
when they are old enough to develop a passion, yes, but in the early years ~3/4-10, you do need to try to introduce them to a variety of things (a sport or martial art, a visual or performing art, an instrument, a practical skill - scouts, cooking, woodworking, electronics). but yea, you shouldn't just be picking football and beating that into them despite indifference to relive your failed football career
 

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He is 100% correct. Success is not an accident. It goes beyond picking hobbies. If your kid is in college you would be a fool to let them major in some bulls$hit. You force them into a STEM major or med school and they will thank you later.
 

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No. You are wrong.

Most kids will lean towards sports and instruments. One of the things I'm learning isn't that parental laziness is being blamed on children.

Parents find it easiest to stick a tablet in their kid's hand. Parents worry less when their kid is where they can see them. Because of that, they their interests stem from the tablet.
No, you are wrong. Facts are facts my boy. Participation in the arts and sports participation is DOWN in kids compared to before.

I’m not arguing the cause of why they became like that. Now if you want to argue that the reason is because parents are lazier, then that’s possible but that’s a different discussion. However, aside from the proof in the numbers we can use our own anecdotal evidence to show the lack of interest in not only physical activities compared to before, but the arts as well.

We weren’t “steered” into sports growing up. It was our own interest, often against our parents wishes. My boy is going through this very thing right now with his son and daughter.
 

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No, you are wrong. Facts are facts my boy. Participation in the arts and sports participation is DOWN in kids compared to before.

I’m not arguing the cause of why they became like that. Now if you want to argue that the reason is because parents are lazier, then that’s possible but that’s a different discussion. However, aside from the proof in the numbers we can use our own anecdotal evidence to show the lack of interest in not only physical activities compared to before, but the arts as well.

We weren’t “steered” into sports growing up. It was our own interest, often against our parents wishes. My boy is going through this very thing right now with his son and daughter.
You're talking just to talk. Read what I wrote, put a dikk in your mouth, and shut the fukk up.
 
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