I&#x27;m so torn on exactly what to do for my month-old firstborn kid.  I love him so much, I want to raise him with all possible advantages, but I don&#x27;t want to create a living death zombie student out him- I figure my best bet is just to try and have fun.  I know it might benefit him for me to discipline him into playing violin at 3, learning to read by 2, soldering projects by &lt;unreasonably low age for electrical engineering here&gt;, but I don&#x27;t think I could handle that if I were him, and I don&#x27;t want to impose that on him.<p>But I DO have that plot- to show the way.  To do interesting stuff and invite him along.  To keep my door open and try to tempt the poor tyke ever-so-subtly into reading, programming, talking, laughing, telling jokes, and all the like.<p>We joke that he&#x27;s going to discover sports and use them to rebel against me, because I&#x27;m no good at most of them and can scarcely imagine something so uninteresting as &quot;Playing Catch&quot;- but if he&#x27;s interested in it of himself, I&#x27;ll follow along- it&#x27;s only fair if I&#x27;m trying to tempt him to follow in my footsteps, that I allow him to guide me, too!  I just- mean, I&#x27;m waxing all peotic and shit here- I really just intend to interact with him about as much as he&#x27;ll let me, have as much fun as we can together, and when opportunities arise (lazy summer days!!?!) - throw in some volcano making, some quark songs, some amateur electrical engineering, some mod programming in there- I want so much for the folks who says that &quot;Play is the best education for a child&quot; to be right, that I reckon I&#x27;ll give it a go. :D<p>For now, at a month old, that involves me talking to him just about endlessly- telling him stories (mostly that I make up out of my head, he and I have made some good ones so far!! :) ) and yammering about the news, the weather, the holidays, philosophy, math, genetics, etc., and then listening when he makes noises back and telling him how much I love to listen to the noises. :D<p>I don&#x27;t know for sure if it will work out like I hope, but I&#x27;m willing to give it a shot.  Uh, will report back in 17 years? :D