Parents should stop choosing career for their children.

[blessingc]

It’s the nature of parents to want the best for their children. Nowadays, students have different kind of challenges and competitions to face compared with what their parents had gone through, parents cannot make decision for their children’s field of study because of the generation gap that exist between them.


Children should also be given the right to choose their career path and live their dreams. Only once in a lifetime a person gets an opportunity to decide his or her career. If he or she fails to make the right career choice the whole future can become bleak or impacted negatively. If the child's wish is not respected, the child may fail to give his or her best, leading to the bad and terrifying future.


Our world today is filled with many unfulfilled people in their chosen careers and professions, There are several graduates today who cannot boast of their certificate or even defend it just for this reason. It is important parents sincerely ask themselves whether the reason for insisting on a particular course of study is not based on a selfish motive or other wrong ones as highlighted above. Parents must realize there is more to life than possessing certificates in some ‘juicy’ courses or bearing a particular title within the society.

Parents can suggest but not decide or force to pursue a specific career. The children should be mature enough to have a say regarding their career.

 

[itsyitsy92]

Yes I agree with that children should chose their carrier

 

[saoussen5765]

Sometimes there are new fields with no specific future or the future isn't something determined so parents could advise children for the career.

 

[Richee84]

Parent have a vital and important role to play in the life of their children, though is not advisable for parent to force or choose for their children when the child is not in support of they have chosen for them. Every child has his or her own dream and what they will like to become in life, such dream by those kids should not be push aside by their parents simply because we the parent has their own plan for them. Some children are born with a special gift and they discover their purpose at very early age while some discover their purpose as they grow up to meet people. Parent are just suppose to be a guide to their children and not choosing for them against their will, as a parent once we know the gift a child has them we are suppose to train them along that line so they can achieve their goal in life. Parents are suppose to know the strength and weakness of their child then help them to build more on their strength and also help them to overcome their weakness. Parent are just to make sure that they guide their children right to succeed in life and not necessarily they choose for them.

 

[Augusta]

I'm one advocate of parent to allow children choose their own career because I know they will do better. I don't even know why a parent should dictate what a child become tomorrow careerwise. I'm not saying that parents should not advise counsel or give their opinions but let the final decision rest with the child.

Children from experience tend to do better when they are given the opportunity to choose when they want to become. Like one popular musician here in Nigeria. Dr Sid he was forced by the parents to study medicine he did and cam we out and became a medical doctor but he hasn't practice that even for a day. he went back to being a musician.

That's how he became popular even more than the father. so it is good to always allow kids lead their lives and do what they want as their career. they will do better.

 

[LoukiaCharilaou]

Unfortunately, there are still parents who choose career for their children. In my opinion, this is a very big mistake because they make their children really unhappy. Parents should talk to their children about their career and advise them since they are older and they know some things much better but their children should be let free to choose their career taking into consideration their preferences, interests and skills. Only in this way, can they be happy and follow their dreams.

 

[Rubz]

Yes, it is true that parents play a vital role when their kids choose careers, but that doesn't mean they should force their child or children into a career he or she doesn't have interest in. The role of parents when their kids choose careers is to guide their kids, they ought to make their children see reasons why a particular career is not good for them or is best for them, and not to force their decisions on their kids.