While Jason’s comment makes a very valid point about being different from one’s parents and ‘unheard,’ I must take exception to his analogy. Your situation is more as if Jason had insisted that he identified as the owner of a successful
painting company and you’d better put up the cash for capital improvements or he will commit suicide or…
While Jason’s comment makes a very valid point about being different from one’s parents and ‘unheard,’ I must take exception to his analogy. Your situation is more as if Jason had insisted that he identified as the owner of a successful
painting company and you’d better put up the cash for capital improvements or he will commit suicide or call you terrible names and cut you off. As you can see these are two very different scenarios—encouraging an entrepreneurial spirit in your child is different from affirming your child’s detachment from reality.
While Jason’s comment makes a very valid point about being different from one’s parents and ‘unheard,’ I must take exception to his analogy. Your situation is more as if Jason had insisted that he identified as the owner of a successful
painting company and you’d better put up the cash for capital improvements or he will commit suicide or call you terrible names and cut you off. As you can see these are two very different scenarios—encouraging an entrepreneurial spirit in your child is different from affirming your child’s detachment from reality.