My informed but non-professional understanding is that: the good news is if your kids are biologically your own and you are naturally curious, they are predispo

My informed but non-professional understanding is that: the good news is if your kids are biologically your own and you are naturally curious, they are predisposed to be as well. The bad news is that studies show that if you want to steer them towards being more or less that way through parenting style it is not going to have any long term effect. [0] I came to this understanding (which, I'm aware, is pretty different from the public's understanding of child-rearing) from reading, among other things, The Nurture Assumption and the chapter on children in The Blank Slate. [0] That's not to say that there's no correlation in the real world between parents trying to steer their kid to be more curious and the kid growing up to be more curious, just that there's no causation because both effects are caused by their shared genes.