Thought it might be interesting or useful to ask if people have suggestions for making good use of potentially annoying behaviours in kids...?
Like getting the compulsive doodler & non-reader to write comics; or getting the hyperactive unacademic kid into playing sport, for example.
Yesterday I was listening to my Mum whinge about what a trying little brat I was, from about 2 years onwards, because I used to want to sing or whistle all the time and my voice was so penetratingly loud and clear. My reaction would be to stick such a kid in the first cathedral choir available, and make sure they got their daily fill of noise-making, rather than to spend 20 years yelling at the kid to shut up. I think my mum was feeling too harrassed by all the noise to think straight though...