You could be my kid writing, but I didn't push too hard; I am still disappointed they didn't take up more math, but each person has their own life to live. They understood negative numbers and square roots in early elementary school and optimized later education to be least effort for the grade, not inner inspired learning for the joy of learning.
Yeah different people have different roads. And if someone just doesn't have the inner motivation to crack Math problems, then feeding Math to them, especially in a traditional textbook-homework way, is just going to produce resentment.
My father actually wanted to teach me programming too. But similar to teaching Math, he wanted me to go competitive programming, which I absolutely hated and still hate. If he tried teaching me game programming then it was going to be a completely different story. I eventually taught myself programming decades later. My first language was C++ and my first project was a 2d game engine.
IMO, all those teaching he tried to feed me, not only did not increase my motivation or learning techniques, but decreased them. Throughout my childhood (starting from maybe 9), I absolutely hated summer and winter vacations. While my friends were enjoying, I had to go through TONs of extra-curriculums. I used to practice piano 4+ hours a day (as long as I don't have school), and some other hours for extra homeworks. I absolutely hated that, to the point that I hated playing piano and completely dropped it after actually achieving a lot. My father simply doesn't understand why would a normal human-being hate piano, music and Math, when he couldn't even get them when he was young. I didn't bother to explain.
You were probably not that tough to your children though, so I guess they fared much better.
