Pushing Kids to be Successful then Criticizing Them as Adults

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It seems like your whole life you are pushed to do well in school, to be successful in a career but once you do, or even while you try, you then get accused of being greedy etc. You do what you are told to do but then get guilt tripped for it.

Personally I always hated school and struggled to succeed. I still resent it.

I’m not totally sure where I’m going with this post but there sure seems to be some mixed messaging with the importance of school / career success and that of our faith.
 
This reminds me of my mom, who always wanted me to become a doctor, but always went on about how doctors are jerks.
 
That’s the secular world’s version of success. If we were parenting prudently rather than pragmatically, we’d teach our children to discern what God wants for us and pursue that. The measure of success is whether or not we followed God’s will and were Christ to one another.
 
A lot of Catholic schools aren’t really Catholic. If they were, they would scare away the latte liberals who can actually afford to pay the full tuition for their kids.
 
Not that relatable to me. My mother is pleased that all of her children are self sufficient and reasonably successful. I never heard her give anyone grief over it.
 
I don’t know who’s making speeches about greedy professionals, but it’s certainly not the local parish Catholic Churches who are relying on people with incomes to contribute a hefty portion of said church’s operating expenses.

We maybe get a couple sermons a year about not going overboard with Christmas shopping, that’s about it.
 
I always felt when I was young that our elders really pushed us to be very aspirational, then once we were adults those same elders called us entitled for expecting and wanting the very things that they encouraged us to.
 
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