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user-inactivated · 3889 days ago · link · · parent · post: Stop Forcing Your Kids to Learn a Musical Instrument
And I'll never forget dreading weekends because instead of doing what I wanted I was going to be camping with people I didn't care about in freezing weather. Now? I love camping. It varies. If my parents had never forced me to do anything, I might not have done anything. You never know whether you're going to have a kid who actively picks their own hobbies, or a kid who sits and plays video games after school until they pass out. So I disagree in part. It's true, by the time I was about 10 I had made my opinions very clear and dropping out of the church choir probably should have been an option. But in the long run it didn't do too much damage.