http://moonshadows.homeschooljournal.net/2006/06/19/hyper-parenting-and-custom-kids/ Just another Homeschooljournal.net weblog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:11:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 http://moonshadows.homeschooljournal.net/2006/06/19/hyper-parenting-and-custom-kids/#comment-39 moonshadows Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:15:30 +0000 http://moonshadows.homeschooljournal.net/2006/06/19/hyper-parenting-and-custom-kids/#comment-39 It's difficult to know. On one hand, I don't want my kids to feel that I deprived them of growing into themselves by not providing the training they want. On the other hand, I feel I have the responsibility to make sure they grow as balanced as possible. It’s difficult to know. On one hand, I don’t want my kids to feel that I deprived them of growing into themselves by not providing the training they want. On the other hand, I feel I have the responsibility to make sure they grow as balanced as possible.

]]> http://moonshadows.homeschooljournal.net/2006/06/19/hyper-parenting-and-custom-kids/#comment-33 Gem Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:45:13 +0000 http://moonshadows.homeschooljournal.net/2006/06/19/hyper-parenting-and-custom-kids/#comment-33 I struggle with this a lot -- I have talents that were never really developed because we lived in a very rural area where there wasn't any dance or artistic expression much at all. I did sing and act in school, and pursued that for a while, but I always felt like it wasn't a "real" dream, that it wasn't realistic to follow that road. So now, I want my children to know they can do anything they want to, but without pushing them or --horrors!-- trying to live my unfulfilled dreams through them. I have a daughter who is a dancer. I mean she just IS. She dances with every fiber of her being (as well as sings and writes her own music at age 6). I am so tempted to put her in only the most serious of dance classes, but in this area I think I'm actually bless to not be able to afford the 'best' -- that way I'm not pushing her too hard or expecting more than she has to give. She is learning discipline and form, and yet has fun and enjoys herself. We'll see what comes next. I struggle with this a lot — I have talents that were never really developed because we lived in a very rural area where there wasn’t any dance or artistic expression much at all. I did sing and act in school, and pursued that for a while, but I always felt like it wasn’t a “real” dream, that it wasn’t realistic to follow that road. So now, I want my children to know they can do anything they want to, but without pushing them or –horrors!– trying to live my unfulfilled dreams through them. I have a daughter who is a dancer. I mean she just IS. She dances with every fiber of her being (as well as sings and writes her own music at age 6). I am so tempted to put her in only the most serious of dance classes, but in this area I think I’m actually bless to not be able to afford the ‘best’ — that way I’m not pushing her too hard or expecting more than she has to give. She is learning discipline and form, and yet has fun and enjoys herself. We’ll see what comes next.

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