I don't want to be like my parents, who pushed me towards traditional careers, instead of urging me to follow my passion (which I finally have).
But you 'push' your children to follow their passions, what will they have to rebel against? Go for a traditional job out of spite?
I've learned the hard way to parent the child I have, not give him what I wish my parents gave me...
Of course we want our chilren to be happy and self supporting and self respecting. Right now I'm reading 'Flow' by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in hopes of being able to figure out what, if anything, I can do to encourage my child to grow up happy.
But I do like hearing about these non-traditional paths. At 3, DS wanted to be a Policeman who sells CD-Rom games.
Love and More Love,
Grinity
