Thanks you all so very much for your empathetical and insightful responses to my post about my grandson. Many of you mentioned sports and music. He plays in a soccer league, loves to long-distance run and hike with his Dad, takes swimming and gymnastic lessons, and has recently developed an interest in golf. He has always loved music and his maternal grandfather is teaching him to play the guitar and banjo. He picks out tunes on the piano, as well. I sometimes worry about him taking on too much too soon. But we just follow his lead.
At the risk of sounding a bit too proud, I would like to say that he was fortunate to be born into the life he has. Most of the adults on both sides of the family are college educated, many with advanced degrees, many of us are/were educators. Many have mathematical and scientific educations.
But, my greatest source of pride is that we are a large, loving, supportive and protective family. He has some great role models to admire and dozens of cousins to keep him grounded in reality.
We will all work together to shepherd him and keep his path true.
What a collection of great minds you all have. FReepers are the best! Thanks again.
I’m glad to hear he likes music. It runs in my family. I sang in the school chorus, and joined the church choir for a while much later, so I could sing with a couple of my daughters who were musical.
My grandmother came for a visit and put me on to classical music when I was a boy, and from there on I educated myself with LP records.