Nowadays parents put too much pressure on their children to succeed. What is the reason to doing this? is this a negative or positive development?

Success is the goal of almost every individual, and as humans we have the mindset to thrive daily and to be successful in all our

endeavors

a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness)

endeavours

. It could either be studying hard to pass an examination or either competing hard to be the COO of a Fortune 500 company or just trying to be the best mum to your children. As humans, we tend to be competitive in

nature especially

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nature, especially

due to the rising exposure to social media and television.

Therefore

, the need to achieve greatness is the goal of almost every living human on earth. The rising need for parents to place great pressures on their children can be due to various factors. I have a work colleague who is a medical doctor and who insists that all three of his kids study medicine at doctorate level.

This

is not unusual, as most parents, especially the successful ones have

this

undying belief that they are in the best position to choose the careers of their offsprings. I believe competition, ego, the need to survive and the love the parents have for their kids are some of the major reasons for the pressure being placed by parents to their children. It is a negative development because a child should be given the opportunity to pick a career path and should be given the emotional support to be able to thrive well in that career. A musician in my country has 2 children, he wanted them to be musicals like him and enrolled them in prestigious music

schools but

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schools, but

they ended up choosing their career paths and they are both renowned and successful lawyers today. As a parent, my advice is "DO NOT FORCE YOUR CHILDREN". In conclusion, parents should

endeavor

a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness)

endeavour

to avoid being overly competitive in nature and allow the children

grow

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to grow

in their own paces. Competition is one of the reasons for the pressure being placed on children by their parents. In most cases the children end up hating their parents and being successful on their own. Schools/teachers should set up

meeting

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a meeting

meetings

with

parents

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the parents

of their students to discuss the areas where their wards are thriving at in school in order to help them achieve greatness in

future

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the future

.