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Re:Want Passionate Kids? Leave 'em Alone by pbhjpbhj on Thursday February 11, 2010 @04:25PM (#1118808)
>Also, please explain why you think it's important for parents to push children when they run into difficulties.

So the child can learn that the limits of their ability are beyond the limits of their self-perceived ability.

We're talking about passionately applying oneself to an activity. This does not limit the locus to recreation IMO.

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Re:Want Passionate Kids? Leave 'em Alone by dkimball on Thursday February 11, 2010 @06:13PM (#1119061)
That's a good point, but I think that that lesson would be better learned in the core-knowledge curricula (which the child's going through whether he/she likes it or not) than by wrecking his/her enjoyment of computer programming or violins or model-building or first-person shooters or whatnot.
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