"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Jay Honeck writes:

Now if I could just get my 13 year old daughter interested in flying,
we'd be in good shape. No luck, so far -- and it's driving Mary NUTS.

Puberty shifts priorities, unfortunately.

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Much more importantly, aptitudes are said to shift at about that age.

There is a drastic decrease in aptitude toward learning new
languages--especially speaking without an obvious accent. That is why I
remain so annoyed with our (US) education system, which delays foriegn
language studies until high school, any makes the USA such a deserving
subject of derision with regard to our language comprehension. Therefore, I
would have a difficult time ever voting for a candidate endorsed by the NEA.

There is also a drastic imporvement in aptitude in spacial matters such as
trigonometry, solid geometry, etc. Obviously, that would include the
airspace system, theory of flight, and navigation. That was the substance
of my irritation with the EAA Young Eagles program from the start--entire
age range should have been five years older. Of course, a voice from the
Chapter level is not very loud; nor very timely.

So, IMHO, Jay is probably on the right track at about the right time.

Peter