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This was 100% my experience growing up. All the grownups telling you to stop fooling around with x and focus on y if you want to be successful. Turns out no one really cares about y, and everyone needs x. Maybe we should trust kids’ instincts more.
I would guess that you were an unusual kid, and that x was not gaming.
I'm experimenting with a 9-year-old, who wants a laptop. He can have a laptop, but we won't install any games on it, but he can code his own games, and I'll help.
My parents had two rules: 1. No video games (I would have been 100% addicted) 2. If you want something other than food you have to buy it yourself, you can work in the garden for $5/hr. This wasn’t my parents’ goal, but in retrospect that’s a clear recipe for making a founder.
This. “We should trust kids’ instincts more” wouldn’t turn out well with sugar or TV.
Something always works for someone.
Playing video games turned out well enough for me, the money I made from trading on Steam enabled me to chase bigger opporturnities.
Top gamers do very well for themselves too 
only the .01%
I want to cure my addiction
Well even if it was gaming and he took it really serious, if could have paid off. But I get your point!
Gaming was completely forbidden at my house :)
Can you point to the most important variables that helped your parents successfully achieve this?
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