Free children to choose career
In the existing social context, parents have a tendency to impose their wishes and desires on their offspring. Parents often want their children to grow up and become doctors or engineers. But a child may have different aspirations. When parents impose their own expectations on their children, it does more harm than good. Such expectations kill the child’s aspirations, dreams and creativity. It is particularly pertinent to those who want to study in the humanities or social sciences, because people in our society think anything other than the hard sciences is useless.
Parents should give their children the independence to decide what they want to be and choose their career path. Parents can of course guide their children but that should not translate into them imposing their decisions on their kids because this can lead to mental pressure and depression among children. Parents have a responsibility to ensure that their children are not pressurised when it comes to choosing a career – it is their life, and they should be free to decide their fate.
Md Masud Rana
Dhaka University
