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Raising a child who is self-motivated requires a balanced approach that can be difficult to figure out. Thankfully, many parents before us and after us have been able to achieve this.

I want to try to figure out what's really important to me." I think that the self-driven child is driven by internal motivation as opposed to other people's expectations, rewards, insecurity or fear.

But raising a self-driven child doesn't mean they "get to be the boss of everything, [or] that a 5-year-old kid never has to do anything they don't want to do," Stixrud said.

Raising a child who is self-motivated requires a balanced approach that can be difficult to figure out. Thankfully, many parents before us and after us have been able to achieve this.