Pushing them (children) into a career that is “practical”/ “safe”/ prestigious/ well-paying doesn’t count as help. It’s how parents satisfy their own needs.

It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.

They (parents) use this guilt-tripping to stop you from fulfilling your plans, but most important, from believing something they don’t (something which contradicts their beliefs)

Who said that parents’ beliefs should be adopted by their children?