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<p>If you expose them early enough, you don’t have to force. I grew up listening to my parents’ music, then later added my own. My children have grown up listening to our music, plus they’ve been steeped in classical music (organ, strings) at church. They love our favorite artists, 1960-70s Broadway musicals, and classic movies. They’ve added some of their own music as well. They’ve watched old movies as well as more recent ones. They enjoy watching Fred Astaire dance, they sing along to The Sound of Music, and they have memorized dialogue from To Kill a Mockingbird.</p>
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<p>I have one child who lives to read the Great Books and would love to send every math book that you enjoy reading to the “dust bins of posterity”. She thinks that higher math is boring, depressing, ponderous, and time consuming. Still, we’re glad that’s it’s in her curriculum. 
Yet another of my children is counting the days until P.E. is over forever. Vive la difference!</p>