Surely many of you have heard “I’m your mother (father)
so I know what is the best for you!”.
But do parents really know what is best for their
children? Do they realise what their child is really capable of? For example, they
rarely understand how schools work unless they are teachers themselves or have
relatives who are teachers. If their child broke a leg they would not try to
fix it themselves. They would take the child to a health care
professional. So why is it so hard for
some parents to take their child to an education professional?Unfortunately,
children don't come with a manual - imagine how great that would be! Maybe then
parents would make less mistakes. Certainly parents should be part of the decision about the
child’s education. It is horrible when parents demand inappropriate programs
for their child and not accept the truth that a child with a low IQ should not
go to college or university.
I think parents should stand by their children and
support them all the time. They should give them love and encouragement. But
sometimes parents do not allow their children to follow their own path. Parents want their children to
achieve more than they did. They want their children to have what they could
not have. So with all these good intentions in mind, they seem to think that
they know what is best for their children. Though many times what the parents
want for their children is passed off as their expectations for them. For
example, they try to
dictate to their children that a certain occupation is better than what they
want. It is sad that they do not care about what their children really
want.
So many
children are left with the task of trying to meet the expectations of their
parents and not trying to figure out what makes them happy. Children need to be able to make their own decisions.Everyone
needs to explore the opportunities and challenges they are faced with and learn
from their own mistakes.