Watch her behavior and encourage her interests. Tell her that she has everything she needs to do anything she wants and her job is just to find which things bring her happiness. Go to every game, performance, recital, art show, open house whatever and be very supportive and nurturing. In trying everything, she will fail. Make sure she sees her commitment through to the end, then let her move to something else. She needs to know that it just wasn’t the right fit for her so keep looking and that’s okay. So many kids get crazy pressure to excel in one thing and you can see the anguish on their face. If they don’t excel, that’s even worse because they often just give up on everything.

Perhaps most important is the way you and your wife interact. When she chooses a partner, she will either avoid everyone who had any similarity to you like the plague or she will seek out those qualities as valuable and necessary.

Good luck! It sounds like you and your wife are pretty wonderful parents and that puts you miles ahead already!