Todays parent is increasingly concerned with raising the child from infancy to the time he or she becomes a teenager.
The average parent's focus is on bring up your child to be
1. secular (or at least more tolerant towards other religions)
2. not a racist
3. technology friendly
4. social
etc. etc.
We raised our first one very techno friendly and the results are showing already!!
The same approach is being used to for the second one..
You have to give them a strong "foundation" ..
We are raising our second on the pillars of a solid foundation .. 
Dont get it.. think Java, Computer Fundamentals, TCP/IP...
Next week we will raise her on C++, Pascal and HTML !!At this rate, the kid should be a geek before she walks..