I'm a life-long learner interested in nearly anything. I've got a small toddler and plan on exposing them to a variety of things that I find interesting. However, I have a couple of concerns/questions on how to implement this.
- I don't want my child to be into something simply because I was. For instance, I don't necessarily want them to follow my footsteps in software. I'd much rather my child bring new ideas and interests into our family's life.
- I don't want learning to feel like a chore and for them to "bounce" for lack of a better term.
- I strongly believe that there are "right times" for certain ideas. For instance if I sat my son down at a computer at too young of an age to really understand, then at some later age when he's more intellectually ready for such a tool he might not be interested since it seems "old hat." and then the magic never happens.
I want to maximize his ability to capitalize on his own curiosity for any given tool/subject.
Do you have any thoughts or experience on this? Even advice specific to your area of expertise would be really interesting to read.
Thanks!