I suggest you have them learn a foreign language when young. Particularly Spanish and Chinese.

Kids get addicted to video games and TV. I think you should just set those into Spanish and Chinese. Tell them "play all the video games you want so long as the games are in Spanish or Chinese, you're learning a language".

This reads like the typical expectant-parent confusion. The big mistake is thinking about a one-way flow of information from the parent to the child.

What really happens is that the infant is the teacher. The parents are reduced to sleep-deprived diaper-changers who serve a tyrant who can't walk or talk. Do that for a while and your priorities and worldview have now been reprogrammed.

The kid grows up a bit and now dad, who was so full of wise lessons, is suddenly watching the kid eat a caramel apple for the first time, or riding a tricycle, or going on a water slide. The dad has nothing to teach, the dad gets to re-learn the joy of simple things.

But like others say, just read to them, play with them, be interested in them as little people...the rest will take care of itself.

The right question might be: how to expose a kid to many things to pick up what are they into. And how to let them spend as much time on it as possible.

According to the Ancient Greeks, the single word to aim at with education is not "resourceful," it is "virtuous." Hard to get Lindy-er than that.

Teach your children about the things you love. Partially because children often don’t fall far from the tree, and mostly so they can learn how to enjoy something.

Growing up, my daughters HATED anything STEM (maybe because I'm such a nerd :-)

Now they're realizing that all "work" is tech related, and younger one is actually taking comp sci.

Teach him to be rich. That's all that matters from now on. That's the only measure of merit. He can buy IQ by the token.

> My economically valuable skillset – programming – suddenly feels less valuable. What shall I teach my son

Did the author get their programming skill from their parents? I feel it's a quite weird question.

In the list of purposes for education he left out "Daycare for children of working parents".

Tell him he should learn how to use his second brain, it has a thousand times more capacity than his first brain

Intelligence will never be scarce. Super Intelligence I meant