Is it beneficial to ask another person about his or her future vocation?
Asking another person about who they want to be in life in the future can be a very interesting question, however perhaps many do not know what kind of people are the ideal candidates to ask this question, the reason why it is not convenient to ask the question: What do you want to be when you grow up? is because this question is regularly asked to children, I particularly think that children are not prepared to answer a question of such magnitude.
Regularly when we are infants we are taking our first steps to learn about the various issues of life, in the initial stages we are changing our minds at every moment, we may even choose to be doctors because perhaps we see a doctor as a superhero, however when we are adults we come to reason better and we can change our minds.
What can happen when a call is made to express their future vocation to an infant, is that there is a sense of commitment, since most of the time the one who asks these questions are the parents, and by innate nature we always want to please our parents, but once we leave childhood and enter the adult stage we can analyze a little more and change our mind about that dream for example of being a doctor and change it to be an astronaut.
If we choose between fulfilling our true vocation, that which we have chosen with a sufficient degree of maturity and being able to fulfill the dream of our parents, it is most likely that we will choose to fulfill the dream of our parents, all this with the intention of fulfilling that initial goal, the bad thing is that we are not fulfilling our own tastes, which is why I comment the following:
"Once you decide to ask your child the question: What do you want to be when you grow up? I want you to know that it may not be the best question to ask our children. The best thing would be to wait until they have reached a certain level of maturity in life and ask them: What have you chosen to do with your life?"
In this way, our children will surely be able to answer more confidently the profession they want to do, and in this way we can break a little with that degree of commitment that may exist in the initial stages, even if our older son makes a mistake and decides to change profession and become a photographer for example, I assure you that he will do it because he did not forge that degree of initial commitment.
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This is the best thing to do with children, so that they can have a reasoned choice of what they really want to do with their lives.
Very good reflection that you raise to help parents to be more aware.
Hi @sandracarrascal, without a doubt parents are role models for our children, hence our behavior and actions should be the most appropriate so that children do not acquire unwanted behaviors. Now, I think it is necessary to generate a climate of future projection in our children and work towards what they want. Thank you for your contribution
At a certain point in children's lives they will start figuring out what might be the best choice for them, and if we ask them while they are still too young to understand it's mostly just any answer from them, things they just think it is good or might be the best.
Also if we just follow our parent's dreams it might end up in a bad way since we are just achieving their goals over ours and might end up in a job that never fits us.
Nice read, thanks for sharing!