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Personally, I think appropriate collaboration and teamwork is a life lesson and skill. Sure there are lines,
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Well, dudediligence, this time you get the prize for succinct and well-stated. I'm highlighting this issue because I think it goes well beyond the immediate "why types?" question. </p>
<p>All of our kids have had the group-project scenario in high school. Here they begin to learn sometimes tough lessons about how to handle the one who doesn't carry his/her weight. Do they just do that kid's work for him, for the greater good of the project's, and their own, success? Usually. How do they respond to the question which is always asked in our hs (in writing) as to how each person contributed. (They gloss over the problem, in my experience. After all, it IS high school and rocking the boat is not rewarded).</p>
<p>Then we have the major project as homework assignment. We all chafe at the parents who basically DO the work. Definite crossing of the line. Yet, parental "involvement" can be just what dudedil says - life lesson in collaboration and teamwork. It was a joy to behold my S bouncing ideas off his dad for his Physics project this past spring. Brainstorming, listening, accepting some ideas, rejecting others, finetuning his own ideas based on suggestion. I'm sure some would say DH should have said nary a word. I think differently. In the vaunted "real world," collaboration and works-well-with-others can often trump IQ points in determining success and satisfaction.</p>
<p>Sorry for the off-topic post. Dudedil just awakened something in my thinking. And now, we return to our regularly scheduled wranglings over on-line vs. not.</p>