Leading children to a career

[Lara]

I was just posting a reply to the question of it taking a village to raise a child. It made me think of something that happened this week. I suggested a possible career to a child I know. I said she’d make a terrific nurse. Later I wondered if her parents would be grateful or ungrateful for my suggestion. Perhaps, they’d like her to be a doctor. Any thoughts about whether you should give children possible career options if you have some influence over them, provided their parents let you have some influence over them.

 

[DarkLight]

As long as you’re not overly pressuring them, sure. Career choice ultimately won’t belong to the parents anyway, so I wouldn’t worry overmuch about what career the parents want the child to have. I think good parents will be happy so long as their child turns out to be able to support themselves without moral danger and is happy with what they’re doing.

 

[Usige]

Yep. I shocked a friend of mine when I said I don’t care if my kids are garbagemen or astronauts as long as they’re happy.

I don’t think making suggestions is a bad thing. Sometimes we have blinder on and never consider other options so a suggestion might open new avenues that someone might not have considered.

 

[Cruciferi]

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I’ll tell my kids, “Even Scrooge McDuck had to work hard to earn his vault of coins”.