I gotta say, I had this same thought twenty years ago when my kiddos were pre-teens. Be creative! Make beautiful things! Don't haul up the data on the Xerox lin

I gotta say, I had this same thought twenty years ago when my kiddos were pre-teens. Be creative! Make beautiful things! Don't haul up the data on the Xerox line like your old man! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDkmVo2fg4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDkmVo2fg4 Man, was I WRONG! What a MISTAKE. My spouse and I fouled up some lives by teaching that attitude. My youngest wanted to do game dev. So she got Masters of Fine Art from an A school concentrating in 3D animation and motion capture. Now she doesn't make enough money to afford to live in a tiny apartment in the Bay Area exurbs working a full-time temp job for a big game dev outfit. My oldest also went to a A art school for an MFA. Now she's an office administrator, almost forty, raising a family. We're super-proud they don't have any debt. That took hard work. Still, there's no way they're going to have the opportunities my spouse and I had. Who has the labor market power to earn enough to feed their families in the overpriced coastal areas? Engineers, lawyers, executives. My mom was a classicist and really wanted me to spend a lot of time learning to read the ancient greats in Latin and Greek. But she didn't push me too hard; she let me make my own choices. That was good for me. Please, please, young parents, be careful about how your ideologies affect the small people in your care. Don't let your ideologies make them think their choices are limited. Seriously.