Hacker News Reader

First of all, that's a weird goal to have. Children are people. Let them be interested in whatever they want.

Buuuut, if you want them to get into programming, then discourage their computer use, and tell them to go play outside or something. Tell them that Linux is bad. And tell them not to go near the internet, and "whatever you do don't look up SNES emulators on the internet. Don't go to anynowhere.com and get really into Noctis."

View on HN

As a parent fostering the development of a lucrative skill that appears to be interlocked with the future of our labor market, which the parent themselves find enjoyable, doesn't seem that weird. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's one of the most normal goals a parent could have.

Now, the execution of that goal can be done very well, or very poorly, but the goal itself is reasonable.

Oh, I guess my parents raised me weird, then. They discouraged putting any importance into that kind of thought, especially when I was just a kid. It was always like, "do what you love and money will follow" kinda thing.

This kind of parenting is one of the reasons there are so many disaffected millennials saddled with insurmountable college debt and unmarketable skills.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com