by forme

Created on: March 17, 2009

As a parent you always wish and want your child and or children to grow up and become successful. Although we as parents have to know when to draw the line, there is a difference between pushing your children to succeed and making it feel as though it is a punishment. Your children should make their own decisions when it comes down to what they want to do in life, and it is fineto push them a little bit to give them what it takes to make something out of their life. One should never ever sit there and drill it in to their kid that it's important to succeed in life and force them into doing things to make it happen. It's not healthy for your relationship with the child and it's not healthy for the child to begin with. It's going to end up hurting your child in the long run and no parent ever wants to harm their child even on accident. There is several things that you need to remember as a parent when pushing your child and or children to succeed. It is their life not your's and you need to respect that and back of a little bit and give your child and or children room to expand and find out what they want out of life. You can't live your life through your children, so if you are pushing your child to succeed in life because you may not have, that is just wrong and you should never do it.

You have got to also remember that they are going to love you and respect you more if you show interest in what they want in life and offer them tips on how to achieve their goals without sounding or acting like a drill Sargent. So in other words go ahead and push your children, I know I would push my daughter to make something of herself in life but I would never do it to the point where she is going to resent me or hate me for it. I have to remember that it's her life and she is going to do what she is going to do regardlessof what I do. Although if I push her it's going to put her on the wrong path in life and she may not end up as successful as she could have been had I just pushed less. Pushing less isn't always going to guarantee success but it will guarantee that you will have a relationship with your child once they do get to where they want to be in life. That is an important thing to remember when raising children to be successful. What good is having your child succeed if you aren't going to be around to help them enjoy it or celebrate it when they get promoted? I believe it would make me feel pretty bad about myself and my parenting skills if I couldn't be there to help my child embrace the happiness and the joy of their success.

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