Its a very tough question for me,considering the fact,that I am not even married,let alone being a father.
Well,I thing that I would like to do,for my son/daughter is to pursue her to learn playing a musical instrument,whatever it might be.
This is one area,where,I have complaints against my father.Here in India,not many people are there who encourage their sons or daughters to learn playing a musical instrument.And my father has musical background!!He plays harmonica and violin,both quite difficult to master.Yet he never encouraged,nor discouraged me to pick up a musical instrument.
I started playing a guitar when I was doing my engineering,and I have always learned playing it all by my own,buying or downloading books,video lessons,or simply listening to blues,flamenco,rock,metal,whatever.There was nobody to tell me what does an octave mean,or how to hold the G-chord.
And all the time,I kept thinking,why did my father never encourage me to pick up a musical instrument??He had a background of music after all...Did he think I was incompetent??
Hell,may be I could have been a great guitar player if not a Jason Becker,if I would have picked up that guitar at the age of 5 years.....It needs years and years of practice to become a master....I am not going let the same thing happen with my kids,if I ever have kids.Be it sports,music,any other forms of art,I will always patronize it.