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[quote=Anonymous]Your child's personality and IQ are largely inherited, with a reassortment of parental genes.

You cannot instill drive, which is the quality most essential to success. But your child can inherit initiative and risk-taking (which come with their own disadvantages, as you can imagine).

You cannot change your child's intrinsic level of intelligence, but you can maximize your child's potential by encouraging and modeling curiosity from a young age. Lots of reading, not just front-of-shop drivel pushed on customers, but the classics, which are generally written with more complex sentences and richer vocabulary; not just museum walk-throughs, but actually poring at exhibits, reading the labels and asking questions of docents; not just spewing back answers on homework, but actually figuring out math problems and other fiddly teasers. In short, YOUR brain has to be up to the task, OP! Education begins at home, even if you hire tutors - YOU need to figure out if the tutors are any good.

Expose your child to lots of successful professionals of every sector of activity, and talk to him about how the world works. There is no room for fluffy magical thinking about careers.

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