Eta:
The only thing I can figure is the difference between successful people raised this way and successful people raised that way is the belief that comes from a spiral cirriculum educational system. I want my kid to spend hours studying stuff because he wants to. I don't care what he's studying, it still builds skills. I don't care if he gets it right, or how much he gets right. As long as he spend 10,000 hours studying then all the concepts will come around again. It's ok. If it's fun. The more fun it is, the more likely he'll spend 10,000 hours doing it.

Signed,
An American Mom
(mostly)
Kind of, mixed with borderland Mexican lifestyles.

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar