What to Do When Our Children Are Not What We Expected
How I try to raise my son
I’m the father of a 5-year-old. He’s amazing but completely different from what I dreamed of during the pregnancy.
I always thought about him playing sports with me, kicking a football in the park, and watching matches on the TV.
I pictured myself teaching him about all the personal development stuff that I learned much later than I wished to, explaining to him the magic of compound interest, applied to finance or anything else in life.
I imagined myself talking very reasonably to him, with all the calm in the world, showing him the right and wrongs of life.
But life rarely is what we dreamed of.
It turns out that he doesn’t like sports that much, either playing or watching.
He also has the attention span of a door handle… he can enumerate chronologically dozens of his toys, indicating who offered it and when, and knows at any time and anywhere what cards are missing from his various card collections, but he can’t repeat a piece of advice or lecture from me 3 seconds after I tell him.
He’s “very distracted”, as he usually says.
He has pulled his mother and is more into arts than any other stuff. He's very…
