Freewrite week 4 day 6

I hope that if anything my kids will learn from to be more confident to make choices.  I feel that my parents telling m constantly that I could be anything I wanted to be actually hurt my chances of making a real choice about like.  My seven year old wants to be a cop.  He says he wants to be an officer at his school.  Because he has shown interest in being anything I was to cultivate that into a dream for him.  Of course if he changes his mind I would go with the flow.  I just don’t think telling him he can be whatever he wants to be would be helpful.  I remind him that he has to go to school and someday college.  He has to grow up and get a license.  When my daughter gets older I will be the same with her.  I want to be helpful but also encourage them to pick a dream and let’s work towards that.  I want them to see me going to college and be encouraged to do the same.  In a silly way, I would love if my daughter wanted to be a nurse as well.  I think kids are greatly influenced by what jobs their parents have.  My first adult job was in child card because that is what my mom did.  I wouldn’t have liked it mom if my mom had encouraged me to do something more.  There really isn’t a place in parenting for being wishy washy with your kids.  Sitting them down and having a conversation about why you would like them to go to college versus making them go.  That working a job right out of high school is great but living under the poverty level as an adult because you didn’t go to college isn’t.  I don’t want to be like my parents who have struggled my whole life, and I don’t want my kids to feel that why about me.  I want them to have goals and dreams.