Why parents of these aspiring artist say the truth? they can't sing!

Love is blind!! That's the truth. We all think our kids are the most beautiful, the most talented, the most amazing kids in the world. That's what happens when you fall in love. :) Sometimes love is so blind it can't see the truth, so a parent can't really be unbaised when listening to their own child tell a story or sing a song. Think of Scott Peterson's mom who still believes he's innocent... this is the extreme version of what I'm talking about. She loves her son and in her eyes he's still a golden child.

Maybe it's more difficult for parents to say the truth to their kids specially if they know that it will hurt the feelings of their children. I'm a parent and I don't know if I can tell my kid straigth that she really can't sing if ever my daugther can't sing. It's more heartbreaking to see your kid devastated. So I guess it would be easy for the part of the parent to support their kids instead of hurting theri feelings by telling the truth.

You know that whole "face only a mother could love" thing? I wonder if it is like that when a parent hears their child sing or watches them perform or just sees anything they create, like artwork or whatever. I have to wonder if the parents really are caught up in it and do believe their child is beautiful and talented, or if they are delusional, too. Of course you'd expect any parent to be supportive of a life's dream, but I get what you are saying that it's to the extreme here and at what point might it be kinder to say, "No, honey, listen, you need to not go on national TV and exposure yourself to this ridicule. Your talent is good, in my eyes, but probably not at the national competition level, so let's just go to karaoke or something and have fun."

I've noticed the same thing... parents these days are so eager to "protect" their children's feelings and make them think they are good at everything they do. This is awful, these kids are going to get a dose of the real world someday, and it's gonna be a lot more painful to hear the truth from others after being misled like that. It's almost cruel for a parent to encourage such a lack of talent, be real with your child and influence him towards the activities he is good at.