[jasode]

You and Spearchucker are using different semantics of "push":

It's a difference between "pushing unwanted interests on a child" vs "pushing the child's effort for interests he already desires".

The result of the first type of push is the child resenting her parents' forced violin lessons that she hated. (E.g. Tiger Mother's youngest daughter rebels.)

The result of the second type of push is the child's gratitude for his parents because they pushed him out of bed to make swim practice because he wanted to compete in the Olympics. The parents didn't push the love of competitive swimming on the child but they once that desire was identified, they helped maintain the child's discipline for training.