HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

Do parents discourage their kids from goals the parents can't achieve?


For example, parents who are not good at writing stories might discourage their children from becoming novelists.


  👤 beardyw Accepted Answer ✓
They may find it harder to support and encourage them.

But there is a discussion to be had about the child's likelihood of success. Most writers struggle to make a living and often need another job to survive. A certain degree of reality is needed.


👤 JohnFen
I don't know, but I think not as a rule. In my experience, most parents want their children to have better lives than they themselves did, not to replicate the lives that they lived.