I really mean no offense when I write this, but here goes anyway. As an employer, I must say that I�ve apparently run into a number of posters� children as employees. I have far too often seen young people who do not feel they have to put forth effort when facing a challenging task, that someone else will finish Project A while they move on to Project G. Life is supposed to be fun and easy, just like it was when they were children. Yeah, ok.

Allowing a child to replace a lesson with another type of activity/lesson because, even after some time working on it, he hates it so much that it makes him resent his parent/teacher is one thing. Allowing that child to quit an activity because it�s no longer fun is a recipe for disaster in adulthood.