Teach them. Spend quality time with them. I remember quite vividly the moment that my parents identified me as an engineer. I was but three years old when th

Teach them. Spend quality time with them. I remember quite vividly the moment that my parents identified me as an engineer. I was but three years old when they gave me my first "Erector Set". It was a kit full of 6-32 screws, square nuts and punch sheet metal strips, as well as a small wrench. Without any prompting from them I opened the box up then built a little skyscraper. Later, when I was strong enough, my father taught me to pound nails with his hammer. I went on to win an award for my work as the set crew director for my high school theater. I lost my father in 2003, but I still have his hammer.