At which age should you teach your child Go?

[Bantari]

And Moderation: no single interest should overshadow everything else. This is where sometimes boundries need to be enforced.

Why Bantari? We might have different point of view here, but I think if you try to keep your kid moderate in everything he might grow up to be a boring person with no actual hobby.

By the same token you might argue that grade school should teach only one subject. Or, more to the point, that the child can pick one subject and stop learning anything else. You will end up with another Fisher. Interesting? Certainly. But not sure that this is what you want your kid to grow into.

What I mean by my original post is that moderation does not necessary mean that you do everything with equal dedication or interest. Only that you should not allow one subject or interest to completely dominate your child's development.

And when you think about that, it will become obvious to you as well how bad this would be. Say your kid develops a great love for Go. He is 7, with some 15k rating, but all he wants to do is play Go. Would you make him also go to school, or would you allow him to do what he feels like? I personally don't know any parent who would allow that.

Philosophically, one of the most important role of a parent is to prepare the kid for the ret of his life. The lesson that you cannot always only do what you feel like, that sometimes it is necessary to do other stuff as well - it is an important lesson.

Just my opinion. Not trying to tell you how to raise your kid, just explaining my own opinion.

[hyperpape]

My daughter first started playing around with the board and stones when she was two, learned about atari and capture, and has shown interest off and on. She also liked the Cho U Tsumego app.

Nonetheless, she's 5 1/2 and has almost never played a full 9x9 game. This spring, after I went to a tournament that had some kids who were 7 and 8, she told me she wanted to go to the next tournament. But that didn't translate into wanting to play through an entire game.

Anyway, my advice is see if your kids show interest, if they see you with a board/ipad so on. If they do, try things and see what sticks. Maybe they'll play, maybe they won't.