How To Ruin Your College Student’s Life
Perhaps your child isn’t meant to be a cog in the wheel, a piece of a corporate puzzle or even what you want them to be.
Maybe they are the next best screenplay writer, a fantastic vocalist, a piano prodigy or Broadway’s next find. Or maybe none of those things. It’s also possible they will simply make a modest living and be extremely happy doing what they love.
Too often we as parents get caught up in financial worries and forget about happiness. Of course we want our children to be able to take care of themselves. It gives us security. But at what cost?
What do you do for a living? Is it what you have a passion for? Do you get up Monday morning ready to tackle the week zestfully or do you feel shackled to your job out of obligation and debt. Does Sunday night end with a bit of depression as the freedom of your weekend comes to a close? Is that what you want for your child?
The life that most of us live now,or did live prior to March of this year, is not the one that at least two of our forefathers, Adams and Paine, intended. We weren’t meant to spend more time with strangers than with our own families. We weren’t intended to break our backs working to support the dream of another.
John Adams said it perfectly
