Wondering which activities to skip and which to keep? Look no further than your child's interests.
What You Need To Know
Matching your child's activities with their interests is ideal. Interest often signals talent--and may well be something they choose to pursue as a career, in some form. Here are examples of ways to match up interests with appropriate activities:
Interest in dogs: read a book about dog breeds, volunteer at an animal shelter, walk Grandma's pomeranian
Interest in art: draw or use graphics programs to create flyers for school, sign up for art classes, visit a museum
Interest in other cultures: take a French class, check out a book about Tibet, cook a Persian dish
How You Can Help
Take note of how your child spends their time when they're doing the choosing. Maybe after coming home from soccer (your idea), your child spends hours looking through art books. Pay attention to the activities that light a child up. Enthusiasm always means interest.
Allow your child to be who they are. Avoid critiquing interests or limiting them. Just because you don't think a boy should spend his time in the kitchen, or a girl should fix an engine, don't discourage them. (They may just be the next Emeril Lagasse or Danica Patrick.)
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