Helping your kids discover their passion is expensive! Sports training, chemistry sets, art supplies. It all adds up quick. But I don’t think anything represents a major, long-term investment like music lessons. Just to get your kid to learn an instrument to a point where it doesn’t sound like they’re strangling cats in the living room, you’re going to shell out thousands of dollars. We did this with piano lessons. For both kids. For two years. You do the math. Did my kids learn to play the piano? Yes, they actually did. Both of them reached an intermediate level of skill, and can now sit down to play a wide variety of songs, from The Raiders March, by John Williams, to The Minute Waltz, by Frederic Chopin. But did my kids find their passion?/Idaho Dad, A Family Runs Through It. More here.

Question: Do you spend a bunch of money trying to help your kid(s) find his/her passion in life? And/or: What's your passion in life?