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Take something you don’t like and try to like it

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270 points surprisetalk | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 12:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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aklemm ◴[02 Sep 25 13:36 UTC] No.45102936[source]▶
Yes! This is underrated and something I work on with my kids, because it really is a pillar of good living. For me it's been everything from many foods, to basketball, to hiking, to art museums, and maybe someday I'll even tolerate musicals.
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nilstycho ◴[02 Sep 25 13:38 UTC] No.45102961[source]▶
Do you have any tips for how to work on this with kids?
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1. aklemm ◴[02 Sep 25 14:15 UTC] No.45103414[source]▶
Off the top of my head, I do several things:

1) tell stories of how I came to enjoy something I previously had not

2) don't make anything contentious...respect preferences while insisting they can change those preferences if they want to

3) help them gain competence quickly in anything they may not love at first

4) exposure and enthusiasm about lots of things

5) never trashing things and never ever shitting on other people's likes.