Yes, and you should also force your toddler to learn piano and the violin, several languages, basic quantum physics, and bricklaying. You wouldn't want to miss out on any world-class potential through which you can bask vicariously.
Make your child start Chess at a young age!
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hmm slave labour.
Always encourage. Never force.
hi
btw, on chess.com you can't even enter a birth year after 1999 in user's profile. Kids are not welcome here?.. My daugther is 8 years old and plays here anyway. So why not to allow her input her birthdate proudly?
Sincerecly, father of "spatzi".
Cystem_Phailure wrote:
and bricklaying.
Thank you for the bricklaying. It just hung it all together.
btw. I learned chess casually when I was 6. I gave it up when 25 or so (as I realized I was going a bit nuts with my blindfold ability and was not getting much else done) until about age 45. Since then, I have lost my bindfold ability and am now a "normal" strong-casual player.
maybe Cystem_Phailure was about blindfold bricklaying 
If I ever have kids (god forbid) than chess and music will most certainly be a part of their education.
spatzi
I never know how many points I should support in a single posting. I certainly support your point that your daughter should be able to post her age, and be a full normal member.
I also encourage kids to play against kids and often as teammates with other kids against stronger players.
In my own childhood, I had no chess training other than learning the rules, developing principles, other basics etc. and playing against and generally losing to my father. Being a lonely rural kid and getting together rarely with friends who never played chess, I would play against myself and would regress into the bad habit that most children have of presuming my opponent would make weak moves.
I did not realize how destructive this error was, until playing as a 10 year old against an 11 year old. He asked if he could remove his knight and then move. Seeing no trick, I agreed. A few moves later, I asked why he had done so. He said, "You did not move where I thought you would." And I realized that he had the same problem I did, only worse. Most children, who are not prodigies, have that problem, and some work to get over it.
At the risk of talking for Cystem-Phailure, I don't think a parent can make a prodigy from an ordinary child. If a child is a Fischer (or a Mozart) they will train themselves. Encouraging a child and teaching him/her not to cheat, is about the best parenting one can give.
Perhaps the youngest student of R.K.Chokshi School of Chess! http://www.rkcschoolchess.com This 4 year old boy Aarush is able to play a full game of Chess chess on his own! That's why we firmly believe to start Chess at a young age! Catch them young!! R.K.Chokshi School of Chess is established by Manthan Chokshi - I.M. Norm Holder , FIDE Rated and British Champion. One of our main aims is to foster a love of chess in children and in doing so help them reap the benefits educationally and psychologically in a world of increasing complexity. " Chess is gymnasium of the mind!"