Why Should Parents Give To Their Child?

Education is arguably the best gift a parent can give to their child. In today’s society, there has been an epidemic which is becoming more rampant throughout the world. Parents have taken the initiative to choose the life they think their child should live. Although the parent should be the most supportive on a child’s team, this support can negatively impact the child as they mature into adulthood. Allowing parents to choose their child’s career can cause draconian consequences such as the following: a high possibility of depression, prohibition of the child’s rights regarding freedom of choice, and also limitations on the child’s advancement in adulthood.
Parents push their children to get good grades, go to the best colleges, and to have …show more content…
If parents choose the careers of their children, individuals would either meet their obligations at a mediocre level or be rebellious and go the opposite way. Either way, this ruins the relationship between the parent and the child which is more important than the child’s success. The child is also placed with the constant reminder and feeling of regret or unhappiness. They are not happy at their work place which can make people at their job uncomfortable, possibly ruining the environment for their coworkers. People who are at an unhappy point in their life can suffer not only from depression but low self-esteem. This unhappiness which is from the child’s inability to choose their career, causes the child to beat down on themselves and to feel that their achievements are not good enough. Their success is then based on their parent’s viewpoint on what the word success actually means. However, based on a person’s career choice, success can have various meanings for different individuals. For example, a sanitation engineer might view success as making sure that the environment is very clean and could be satisfied with a salary of twenty eight thousand dollars annually. On the contrary, an attorney might view success as being undefeated in his cases and earning a salary of one hundred fifty thousand …show more content…
The child would have a large dependency on their parents to consistently make decisions for them at their workplace and even their personal life. As a result, they develop the bad habit of calling their parents every time they have a problem, instead of dealing with it as mature adults. Instead of having self-reliance, children whose parents decide their future careers, possess traits of incompetency and are eventual hazards to society. They cannot function on their own. In addition to incompetency, they cannot have a healthy relationship with their significant other because they tend to rely on their parents more than they do their lover. This results in a relationship with no trust which is designed to eventually end because of the child’s dependency on their parents. More than anything else, this bad decision of parents to do choose their child’s career encourages the child to only listen to the advice and opinion of their parents. They hold the opinion of their parents above anyone else and they view it as the only important thing that