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To: KyrosL who wrote (82297)	10/28/2011 10:21:49 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 218614

Someone I know had an argument with her 15 year old.. he was lamenting that he could not swim... the mother said ... well each time I took you to lessons you complained.. son says.. I was a child ... you were supposed to make me do what is good for me.. TJ and I have very very much in common in this regard.. right down to being fortunate :O) I understand your point... but again as a parent it is your responsibility IMO to have your child develop every ability they can to the utmost.. at some point choices will need to be made.. but choices are a great freedom to have... always expect their best.. nothing less and nothing more... it is something parents need to learn with every kid I figure.. at least I did..

To: KyrosL who wrote (82297)	10/28/2011 10:48:24 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218614

scouts honor, that we provide opportunities for erita to experience (swimming, skating, skiing, dancing, gymnastics, calligraphy, math, brush painting, piano, violin, ballet, martial arts, gardening, baking, ... whatever), entice her to do certain absolute basics (giving the swim teacher karen one per lesson thomas train toy characters to give to erita for attending each successive class), play on her competitive character to give each act she does not favor her best try (i.e gymnastics), and pray that she picks up on the basics (i.e. swimming, martial arts, math, reading) and develop interest in the basics due to pride of achievement and spare some extra but natural enthusiasm on some extras (i.e. painting, dancing, ballet, calligraphy) when she wanted to quit gymnastics due to whatever, we spoke about her reasons (i.e. the pain), and concluded with her it wasn't so much the pain, but the fact that she wanted instead to use the time for her painting act at erita's 13th birthday, we would consider ourselves fortunate if erita is good enough at the basics, and focus on one passion at one point we discussed whether to drop erita back a grade at school as she, being the youngest (born october cut-off) in her class was having trouble with math concepts as well as chinese language ability. we didn't know the right answer. we discussed the issue with erita as we did with many parents with grown kids. erita said she wanted to try and stay with the class and would do so by working with tutors. my wife and i discussed our own experience in school re age, understanding, achievement, and effort - spiral. parents we respect advised that as long as erita wants to try, let her but help her. we did, and all worked out just fine. we are definitely not tiger parents; but just trying to be good parents. we do believe whatever we wish to instill in kids, the download must be more rather than less done by age 12 - not easy. jack shall likely be another story, one that i do not yet have a sense, but suspect he will be exceedingly different from erita, how i do not yet know. should be fun figuring out if he lets on :0)