Sunday, December 14, 2008

Recognize Your Child's Gifts

Recognize what your children are passionate about and what they’re gifted in. And then give them opportunities in those things.

My son loves crafts. I've got no patience for glue and glitter. I love surfing. But he’s just not interested in surfing. Not yet at least. So we started giving him opportunities to do more crafts and art, despite my urge to paste his feet to a surfboard. Now instead of making him do what I want, I'm learning to do crafts. And don't tell anyone, but I'm secretly starting to enjoy it.

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