What is most clever about this article (besides the intense and long dialogue created by the subject matter which has resulted in some of the longest comments and replies I have seen for any article) is how his wife purchased that book for their child.
Think about the reactions many parents would fall to by default: Lecturing their child that if they want to be "x" they have to do "x" in school.
Or, not taking seriously what their child wants to do in the future or finding it too much effort to debate why they should be doing their school work because "kids, teenagers, heck even adults, change their minds frequently about what they want to do in the future and look at how many college students change their majors."
That was an impressive solution to the issue his wife pursued and an example that will stay with me a very long time.
+1 to the author of this post and his wife for parenting ingenuity.
Think about the reactions many parents would fall to by default: Lecturing their child that if they want to be "x" they have to do "x" in school.
Or, not taking seriously what their child wants to do in the future or finding it too much effort to debate why they should be doing their school work because "kids, teenagers, heck even adults, change their minds frequently about what they want to do in the future and look at how many college students change their majors."
That was an impressive solution to the issue his wife pursued and an example that will stay with me a very long time.
+1 to the author of this post and his wife for parenting ingenuity.