Hacking people, particularly yourself, is just as fun as hacking software (please interpret this sentence in a positive&#x2F;therapeutic way, e.g., mentoring and self actualization).  Be aware that there is an unbelievable disconnect between how parents enforce their goals on their kids, and the cognitive development processes of the children.  An example is Americans teaching kids to share (the children do not understand self, other, etiquette, and politeness until achieving a certain progression of cognitive development; but they absorb the domination&#x2F;submission taking place in the encounter).  You have one, slight chance, to orient a child to be a hacker.  If you try to actively mold the child into a hacker, by exerting pressure to be something that the kid is naturally not, you will likely achieve the opposite, along with all sorts of low-grade psychological issues endemic to the American fabric.  The one chance you have is role modeling (while avoiding reward and punishment, including saying &quot;good job!&quot;, since these will interfere with role modeling).  Role modeling is an extremely powerful force of influence that leads the child to internalize the observed behavior (as opposed to reward&#x2F;punishment, which likely lead the child to internalize a counter reaction, even if suppressed to the view of the parent).