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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents should push their kids, if kids need pushing. When I was young my parents gave me freedom and I didn’t make use it, didn’t go to good college.. so when I became a parent I don’t want my kids to struggle in studies or sports. We have done kumon, chess, Rubik cube, math counts, science Olympiad, taekwondo, little league and private sports lessons as needed. The kids need directions and guidance initially, once you know that they can manage then no pushing is needed.[/quote]

We have a rule, if you sign up to participate on a team, you finish the season. Your teammates are counting on you. If you agree to try something new, you finish the lessons/games whatever we signed up for to give yourself time to begin to develop the necessary skills. You don't get to drop out at the beginning or middle of something new. When the season/sessions are done, if you are not interested, you don't have to participate again.

There are activities that DS is not great at but he loves and keeps asking to do more because they are fun for him. I think that is great because he is learning to enjoy something that he is not the best at. There are activities that Ds is very good at but doesn't want to keep doing because he doesn't find them fun. So we drop them.

We emphasize effort and not outcome. If DS makes his best effort and fails, then who cares. He tried the best he can. we practice to try and improve and celebrate improvements based on his effort.  We expect him to get good grades, because we know that if he makes his best effort he should get good grades. If he doesn't get a good grade (handwriting is the only 2 he has ever received) we practice to improve in that area.

He is 8. We want learning to be fun so he gets to choose his extras. He always chooses robotics, coding, and chess as extras. He also chooses art club which he loves. We let him choose his pleasure reading books but keep books that are more challenging in site and offer to read with him those books. He has a scratch pad that he is using to solve his own math problems.

We encourage and push but we want learning to be fun. School is school but learning outside of school can, and should be, fun.

But also want for him to have down days where he can play with friends or be bored at home. That leads to free play and creative use of what he is learning at school and reading or math for fun. 
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This is a wonderful attitude to have. I cannot agree more.

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