Short answer: don’t encourage it. Support it where requested. Don’t encourage, don’t applaud, don’t try to improve it. Let it grow and develop, allow it to ch

Short answer: don’t encourage it. Support it where requested. Don’t encourage, don’t applaud, don’t try to improve it. Let it grow and develop, allow it to change when it does, to be what it is. If your child needs your help with it, you’ll know - by their unstoppable requests. Encouraging or rewarding it is a sure way to kill it. See Alfie Kohn’s Punished by Rewards for tons of research showing how rewards / encouragement kill intrinsic interest.