People Who Try To Live Their Lives Through Their Children
By grumpybear
@ShortyAkbar (384)
United States
October 1, 2009 4:33pm CST
I know that everyone wants there children to have better lives than they did and to have the things that they didn't have growing up, but some people just take it too far. For example, I know a lot of men who never played a single sport when they were in high school, but pressure their sons into playing every single sport that the school has to offer. I just think it's sad.
3 responses
@coldmoon (1088)
• France
2 Oct 09
I understand what you say. Recently I always feel that I'm a victim of such kind of education. My father wasn't successful in his own life, so his put all the hope onto me. Sometime he as very cruel, he hit me if I didn't get a good mark at school. One day, I went home after an exam, saying that I hadn't done my best so the result might be bad. At that time I wanted to be comforted, but my father just said that if I didn't get a good mark, either he or I, one of us must leave this house. Up to now I still feel hurt of his words.
@TrvlArrngr (4045)
• United States
1 Oct 09
yeah that is pretty sad. The kids should make up their own minds.
@sredith (239)
• United States
1 Oct 09
I think there is a fine line between wanting your children to do better than you did in life, and trying to re-live your youth through your children. There are a lot of things I wish that I would have done when I was younger that I know would have made my life a lot easier, and I would try to pass that knowledge on to my children, but you are right, there are some people that push their kids way too far.
