Hence, when it comes to choices, I believe a parent can point a child in the right direction but it is the child who decides to go or not. Like the parent, the child also has dreams and expectations. They have passions and unless they are given the freedom, they won’t be able to freely express themselves but instead be weighed down by shackles of the pressures laid on them.
This is my favorite paragraph in your post. There's so much wisdom here. I think that this paragraph right here is what those parents don't get. Your child has a life of their own. THEIR life. Where THEY make THEIR choices, and learn and take accountability for the repurcussions of those choices. I think that parents love the idea that you're still their little baby and that you can't survive this "cruel and dangerous" world without sticking to their absolute dictation because it's probably the only way they can stay in denial of the fact that you are in fact, becoming an independent person now.
This comment! How can I nominate this as the best comment so far?
Indeed! Some parents think their children are spineless and would die without them. Literally. It's the symptom of chronic control syndrome. And I see it with some children and their parents