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I understand and appreciate your sentiment. But don’t beat yourself up about it too much. My experience is that my children aren’t interested in doing these sor

I understand and appreciate your sentiment. But don’t beat yourself up about it too much. My experience is that my children aren’t interested in doing these sorts of projects and short of me threatening them (which would defeat the purpose) they’re not going to happen. A child’s evolutionary goals do not align with their parent’s. And while some people are lucky enough to be able to do these things, they are not normal and set an unreasonable goal for the rest of us. I dream of one day being able to go to rugby union games with my kids. But I know they couldn’t care less about the sport so I can force them or try and find some other way to enjoy the sport I love. All you can do is love your kids in the ways that they will allow. Or you can make them hate you, but I think those are the only two options.

klyrs 6y ago
I've been trying to engage with my kid, and it's hard because we don't have a lot of common interests. But it's not about me. I hate youtube. But he wants to record videos tearing around the neighborhood looking for "ghosts?" Fine, y'know, that's a great way to get out of the house and run around a bit. Don't like minecraft, but he does. Fine, whatever, I'm gonna play it and learn some cool redstone hacks or whatever. Maybe he'll get into modding when he gets older, and I can lure him deeper into programming. Maybe he'll want to ramp up the production value on these awful videos I record. I'm there for that. The point isn't to make your kid do something big that you want, the point is to make room to do big projects that your kid wants.