Is that all I am destined to be?

I think parents do have some influence on where your going to be in life. But I think you choose how they influence you. The amount that they influence you is up to you. If your parents never work and are always stealing you dont have to go that route If you dont want to. You can be succefful and rich Why not? Life is what you make of it not what your parents make of it.

I think they do influence us in a way… like my parents wanted me to be ‘better’ than they were. They worked very hard when I was growing up. Dad had 2 jobs my whole kid and adult life until he retired. Mom worked one job. I remember her working for a dollar an hour when I was about 15 years old. They wanted me and my brother to have a better life than they had. I became a nurse, which allowed me to make a good living, and I could afford to give my daughter a life even though I was divorced. I wanted my daughter to be ‘better’ than me… she chose her own path and became a housewife. There is no better than our parents, I think we choose our own way, but our parents can influence us by their actions or inactions.

I think I have succeeded, but in a different way. They encouraged me to have goals.

I am not a driven person....and my parents weren't either...but they enjoyed life and their family was tops on their list of things that were important....I have the same values....I don't think that success is necessarily measured in the kind of house you live in....or what you have in the bank. I think it's the quality of life you establish.

parents i think is the most influential persons on earth when it comes to their kids... no matter how we tried to make our own decisions in life to build our own career still we cannot be avoided to take our parents advices.

times have change you decided yourself what you want for your future not your parents

Your life is completely different from that of your parents.You are an individual entity with your own identity and nobody on earth is like you.Even your finger prints are unique to you and do not match anybody`s on this planet.Your parents were only the means to give you birth.You came alone and will go alone.Your parents may have reached a certain stage in their lives and could not progress beyond a point but you do not have any such limits.You lead your own life and can go to any level.The sky is the limit for you.Today we find so many children who have surpassed their parents in all field.The present generation of children are far more advanced and have reached levels their parents could never have dreamed off.Today`s generation have so many facilities and chances to advance which neither their parents nor their forefathers ever had.

Before the economy we were doing good. But, since the downfall of the economy we are doing worse than my parents. My parents were growing up during the depression and managed to do very well several years into their marriage, they had their own home, cars and they traveled. We have our own home, cars but will not be able to travel once retired.

It does make sense LovingMyBabies.. but wont this give out some pressure to the kids? Who is the writer of this book and may i know the title? My mom used to manage a trucking service and it sure earned the family enough to pay of a worth of million debts of my father's brother. My father is a distinguished taipan in the construction industry... While i... i am just an account broker who is still seeking a good sideline to earn more cash.

Obviously that is not true. Granted, it may be hard to get beyond the station of your parents, as that is the life that you have known during the foundation years of your life. Where everything is built in the mind and where a lot of the building blocks that you know, is rather going to be thrown down. It won't be easy but it has been rather possible. Everyone who has ever been in a high place in life might have been parents that were a bit lower. There will be many landmines along the way, where people are going to struggle step by step, in an attempt to reach that final destination. However, it is something that can be done mostly easily, if we just push ourselves forward. Something that may be easier said than done a lot of the time but it is doable. But in the end, many don't get much further then their parents are, as that is the gold standard they have set themselves to.

You can pass your parents. They have an influence on you when you're small and sometimes even longer.you're like a book. Your first pages are writen by your parents, but it's up to you to finish it.

The is right. In this life that we have no one can predict what the future brings. Even if your parents didn't succeed, it doesn't mean that you cant too. You can succeed if you want it. To think that you are going to be successful is a way of saying that you will succeed.

i think parents can affect us, in terms of whether we can succeed or not, but it isn't our genes. though to some extent it is, in that we may inherit a talent for something, but an ability to do something is not the same as ambition. being a parent is a very difficult job, but we can pick up messages, that aren't always positive, and what is known as life scripts can be created, which can, according to some self health gurus, affect us enormously. its worth reading about this, this is quite a popular issue for people interested in life coaching, i found a book, and the writer spent ages talking about life scripts, and it was quite helpful.

I feel that your parents life may affect you to an extend. Because our formative years are spend with them. But after a while, you can decide what you want to be in life. Once you can start earning, you can and should study what you want and achieve all that you aim for.

like most have said, i too don't think we can be limited. it's basically all up to us, our determination and drive to want it, to be able to get it and our interest, that decides how far we can go. in your case, maybe your parents just weren't interested enough, or they had no knowledge and now, are simply too tired to even try. who knows the reason. but it's good you want to break out of that mold. i don't think the genes will have that much of an effect. unless you want to consider something like maybe, for example one parent is very laidback and doesn't worry too much. maybe you might be similar in that sense. you could be determined in wanting to break out but your laidbackness could maybe cause you to be a little lazy in looking for jos out there, or you might get tired and give up easily. that could happen depending on your environment when you were young as we all know that most adults are our role models. so we might have this concept that oh they don't worry so much or they give up quite easily and just wait for chances, so maybe that might happen to me. but overall, i feel that mainly, it's all up to the individuals. some aren't really willing to sacrifice luxuries to slog in their work, etc. some might just give up too easily, and many other different cases. but if you are really determined and want to succeed, i think you can go anywhere. best of luck.

Parents can help their children's destiny by making sure that they are better educated than they, but it is up to the child to take advantage of that education.

I don't think you are going as far as your parents. I think loving parents try to make it better for their kids. Parents may determine a child's future if there is a traditional family dynamic like there are in some families. But if parents strive to make their kids independant and self reliant there shouldn't be a problem.

The one thing I got from my parents was their determination to provide their children whatever it takes to make sure they succeed. And that they reach more than they ever did. In that sense, I think they've become a success. Although I still determine my own future, I'm still glad that they gave me all the tools.

It takes time, dedication and determination to succeed in anything. Most of us aspire to be better then our parents and thats what most parents want for us anyway. But not everyone is lucky. If we could be at least as good as our parents were, I think then we are doing well. To go beyond that it takes education and everything I said at the beginning of this response.

You are making your own destiny! You follow your dreams, you do things which you think it is more good to you! It doesn't matter if you're not going to be as successful as others as long as you're happy and satisfied for what you have! Your parents are there to encourage and support you to be in the pedestal of your life. and we should be thankful for their inspiration! No one will ever get into his/her destination without looking back from his/her inception.