The key point of the article is the kid has to want to do it, and do it without pressure. (example: Stephen King's sons taking saxophone lessons because he didn

The key point of the article is the kid has to want to do it, and do it without pressure. (example: Stephen King's sons taking saxophone lessons because he didn't want to disappoint the parents) My father gave me a bunch of Turbo C diskettes when I was 8 or 9, and said nothing other than "give it a shot" and smiled. There was no pressure there. And after I "broke" his computer a few times (one time, I installed some fighter pilot game which broke autoexec.bat, primarily the PATH and PROMPT variables, so I couldn't find anything), he got me a computer of my own, and left me to my own devices. Throughout the years, he would give me random IDE installers (Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic, etc) with no expectations. He still smiles.