Addition to the above:
@pagoni2020 The post describes a classic, which, however, often appears on the other side, the education households.
I have not quite understood yet why this appears with an increasing trend (i.e., the completely uncritical attitude towards one’s own offspring), but I believe that at its core, it has always existed.
That’s true, this is found predominantly in "education households." The worst I found it years ago at the expensive private school, and mostly I felt sorry for the kids who were supposed to compensate for their parents’ perceived deficits. I also experience it in the family, where parents talk themselves up about their protégés’ future while they sit in the next room. The kids’ lives are already planned out, aligned with what the parents themselves messed up in their own lives. Sad...
The blindness towards one’s own children has, in my opinion, increased extremely, which is often interpreted as parental love. But the child needs constructive and friendly criticism and so do we. If they don’t learn this, they will find it hard to cope when they suddenly have to deal with it in life and will quickly become frustrated. From my childhood/youth, I do not know it like this, nor from friends; it was rather sometimes unfair. Nevertheless, our parents were absolutely loyal to us... but not blind.
a) Children become the only real meaning-givers of their own lives and thus sacrosanct.
....of their own, maybe somewhat emptier life. Children should not have to bear this.
Bringing in money and consuming it does not create long-term life satisfaction.
Freely after Eckhart Tolle......
It is easier and even feels appropriate not to take teachers seriously and to distrust them regarding one’s own (sacrosanct) offspring.
Which anyone could expose as nonsense themselves, because how often did we lie to our parents? How can I believe that my child always tells me the absolute truth... that would be completely inhuman, so why do I believe that or wish it so strongly as a parent?
The offspring absolutely have to become academics.
...who then all meet again at the psychosomatic clinic at age 35... by the way, as far as I know, Germany has the highest density of such clinics worldwide... but even then, it is always the others who are affected. It is about finding meaning in what you do. Unfortunately, this has become uncool meanwhile, and I only read about 60, 70, 80k incomes, never about how a person feels well with something, no matter what it costs.
My previous sentence was not meant to be biting, really not, but precisely the “dancing, clapping, singing” in a figurative sense is extremely important for young and old people and nowadays comes up far too little. Unfortunately, it has too little importance today, which you also see in the current treatment of the art sector. What would parents say if their son said he wanted to become a dancer, or the daughter a singer...