Children usually don’t become like their parents.

This means that the talents of par­ents are not inhe­ri­ted 1:1, but what is trans­mit­ted is what par­ents exem­pli­fy. Child­ren are very good obser­vers. And copy­cats. Quick­ly they find out for what you get prai­se, reco­gni­ti­on and admi­ra­ti­on. The reac­tion is just as vio­lent if the­se forms of app­re­cia­ti­on are absent. This is why it is so important not to assu­me that child­ren have exact­ly the same talents, abili­ties and strengths as you do. Rather, it is important to offer child­ren many opti­ons to increase their chan­ces of dis­co­ve­ring their own pas­si­ons ear­ly on.
If child­ren do exact­ly what their par­ents do, it does not neces­s­a­ri­ly mean that it is an expres­si­on of a talent, but it can also mean that it is an expres­si­on of “belon­ging”. Child­ren, as long as they are small, are always whe­re the ener­gy of the par­ents is. That is why par­ents should also be open to many things and dif­fe­rent things. And if you can’t do that in the desi­red spec­trum of art, nut­ri­ti­on, sci­ence, cul­tu­re, sports, envi­ron­ment, music, tra­vel and social acti­vi­ties, the nanny can be helpful.