Who will choose your child career.. you or the child?

My daughter will make her own choices and decisions about her future because I want her to be happy and fulfilled, living her own dreams, not mine.

The child should choose his/her career without any interference from the parents. My parents did that to both my brother and I, and we both highly resented it. It was so bad that my father told me when I was fifteen what I was going to go to college for and I was given no choice of classes or personal interests or anything like that through most of high school and my first two years of college until I finally got fed up and moved out of my parents' home. All parents are going to succeed in doing by pushing or making a child think they must go to college for a certain thing is making the child resent them. And when they get older they will leave home and eventually go back and do what they wanted to in the first place, or they will flunk out of college which is what happened with my brother because he was taking courses that he had no aptitude for nor any interest in. And he never went back to college after that because it was not a positive experience for him.

For me it would be up the them. I had mine subtly controled by my parents and I recented it. Still do to this day. I would allow my children to choose what they want. I can offer advice on schooling or subject matter if they ask but otherwise they need to decide what makes them happy. What career will satisfy their needs and what they want to accomplish. I cannot make that choice for them.

I'd like my child to be independent and to take care of himself when he reaches the right age. I wouldn't try to convince him to be what I want him to be. Whatever course he wants to take I will support him as long as he knows what he really wants and strive for it. All I want him to do is to be responsible in everything he does and to be happy whatever he plans to take.

I think I will advice him but final decision will be his only.

Yes, He has his own interest. They have mind of their own. The only thing a parent can do is to advise their children on what career gives better opportunity. BUt if you insist on taking the career you want and not your child's interest. I think he won't excel at all and sooner or later if it doesn;t come out well, the child will blame you for that. So it is much better to guide your child on what career to take and he will still be the one to decide if ever. It's his interest that matters. Not the parent's interest.

First i believe that a child will succeed if he likes what he is doing rather than forcing him to do something that he doesnt like. However the child has to know what matters most in life and to weigh things in the manner of which career leads to a better future for him and his future family as well. I also believe that it depends in the situation; example: If MONEY is short or lacking; then i would believe that letting the child know this factor he would be able to choose what career he want to take that doesnt require too much expenses because we all know courses like MEDICINE, LAW & ENGINEERING are expensive college degrees... however if the child is willing to EXCEL then he can strive for scholarship. Here in my country to get a GOOD CAREER is equal to A GOOD COLLEGE DEGREE. Always bear in mind that doing what you like is more productive than doing something you dont like.

I'll have my son choose what he wants to do. If he wants to go to college to help with his future career, I'll try to support him financially or at least let him continue to live with us to save money. I just want him to be happy in life.

its the child's decision. they are the one who's gonna build their own careers and set their own lives in the future. the role of he parents is just to guide and support them. parents should give their children information about the different careers so they could choose as to which career they're interested in. sometimes the parents' choice is not really the right choice for their children

My child will be free to study whatever he/she wants. My parents have tried to guide my career choice and I have found it suffocating. Each person has to find their own path in life, you may be able to temporarily convince someone that they would like a certain career but once they are in that field they will find out whether or not they like it and I want my child to be happy.

Well the child must be given the opportunity to decide for himself so that later in his/her life .... no regrets are left in the mind of a child...!!!! what all we can do is try to scan the various choices he/she has in mind... n indicate about the best alternative.... n rest is upto the child..!!! coz if give the child the requisite freedom , its liable that the child z gonna be less adamant onto the decision ...!!!!

My son will have free reign in this area of his life. I don't feel that parents should try to influence their children as to what they want them to do as a career. The child has to be happy in his or her life or they will just end up resenting their parents for making them do something they were less than happy doing.