Serious advice for Indian Parents. Please stop treating your children like exhibition animals. Like my 8 year old son trades F&O, my 12 year old daughter manages 50L portfolio, my 7 year old kid is an influencer, my toddler started a company etc.
Let kids be kids. Trading, investment, influencing shit etc turn them to freak shows and are damaging to them in the long run. Trading and investments, particularly is a high dopamine affair that can have real consequences on their ability to control impulses, and delay gratification, etc. If a kid believes you can create money by low effort stuff like clicking a button or talking on a camera, hard to unlearn that.
Also, child "prodigy" is a huge burden. It gives them a wrong sense of misplaced validation. And most importantly, prevents kids from having normal childhood. And most of the influencing claims by kids are fake claims by parents. So it makes them a liar before they know what lying even means. They develop confidence issues/ impostor syndrome.
Even if you don't care about the childhood and only care about the outcome, this still fails. Getting genuinely good at anything takes years of being bad at it in private, and a child who is already a public expert has lost permission to be bad. You have traded the thing that produces mastery for the thing that looks like it.
Having said that, this is only about publicity stunts and circuses. Music, chess, competitive maths, sports have produced serious people through early intensity. Tendulkar, Gukesh, Verstappen, Zakir Hussain, Terence Tao - the list goes on. What those fields have that the publicity circus doesn't is external standards the parent can't manufacture. You can't fake an Elo rating or a lap time in a Kart.
So stop. Let kids be kids. Do not create a freak show because that makes you feel better about your unrealized aspirations. If they are good at something real, help them excel at it - because the kid genuinely wants to.
Whatever stays with you without you having to force, it is yours.
And whatever isnt with you even after forcing it was never yours,
It only came to teach you something..
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