In my line of work I deal with various types of people, dumb, clueless, smart, confused, annoying, cheerful and then some. The majority of them being teenagers and their parents, what I find interesting is the parents who wants to send their sons and daughters, who are under 18, overseas to study in university but still not being able to treat them as an adult individual, most of the parents I've dealt with wants a special treatment for their child, most people find this natural I find it annoying.
They have to learn that they can't have the best of both worlds, I can't guarantee that these children will be with the "right" crowd nor can I guarantee what they study will be useful in their future jobs. When it comes to advising teenagers about what they want to do I tend to ignore the parents because they're not going to live the child's life. My job is to counsel the students about their options and see they get to study where they want and what they want.
Parents may think they know what's best for their children but it's the children who have the right to decide what they want to do.
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Here's they thing, parents want the best for the children but sometime either they don't know what's the best or they do yet it's different compare to the children's.
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