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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 113553" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>I'm not sure we disagree by all that much. I'm sure you <em>did</em> try to influence your children in certain ways, like avoiding drugs. We tried to expose our two daughters to every experience we could as they grew up, never knowing which ones would "stick" and which wouldn't. Just the act of exposing them to things, as opposed to minimizing their exposure to the world, was an act of influencing them. But, what they wanted to pursue, or not pursue, was up to them.</p><p></p><p>My older daughter had zero interest in motorcycles, which was fine, and my younger daughter did have an interest, which also was fine. When I wrote <em>"I got her interested,"</em> it actually was by accident. My wife already had left for work and my car wouldn't start one morning so I asked her if she wanted to ride to elementary school on a motorcycle. She jumped at that. At some time around then we took another ride, were going pretty fast when the road had an undulation in it, and she screamed <em>"faster, daddy, faster!"</em> So, since she liked motorcycles, when she was older the opportunities to attend two motorcycle road racing schools and a performance car driving school were offered to her , but it was up to her whether or not to take advantage of those opportunities (which she did).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 113553, member: 2806"] I'm not sure we disagree by all that much. I'm sure you [I]did[/I] try to influence your children in certain ways, like avoiding drugs. We tried to expose our two daughters to every experience we could as they grew up, never knowing which ones would "stick" and which wouldn't. Just the act of exposing them to things, as opposed to minimizing their exposure to the world, was an act of influencing them. But, what they wanted to pursue, or not pursue, was up to them. My older daughter had zero interest in motorcycles, which was fine, and my younger daughter did have an interest, which also was fine. When I wrote [I]"I got her interested,"[/I] it actually was by accident. My wife already had left for work and my car wouldn't start one morning so I asked her if she wanted to ride to elementary school on a motorcycle. She jumped at that. At some time around then we took another ride, were going pretty fast when the road had an undulation in it, and she screamed [I]"faster, daddy, faster!"[/I] So, since she liked motorcycles, when she was older the opportunities to attend two motorcycle road racing schools and a performance car driving school were offered to her , but it was up to her whether or not to take advantage of those opportunities (which she did). [/QUOTE]
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