“When we try to push what we want off on our children and make them believe that it is what they want for themselves, it seems to work while they are young. Without fail though, as they get older and begin to develop their own likes and desires, they find that the direction that they want to move in may be very different than the one that was chosen for them. I am not sure if this happened to you as a young child, if so, then you know the emotional strain that this could put on not on the child’s emotional situation itself, but also on the parent/child relationship overall. If you did not experience it, can you imagine the struggle that the child would go through in this situation? Sometimes we need to think from our children’s outlook and put ours to the side, even if only temporarily.”
-Abu Abdillah Abdul Lateef
