Parents as Travel Agents

A great temptation of parenthood is imposing your desires and inclinations on your child. You love music so you want your daughter to be a musician. You’re a carpenter so you want your son to be a carpenter.

Instead of forcing our desires on our children; I think, as parents, it’s helpful to picture ourselves as travel agents. When a customer comes in and you’re the travel agent, you ask some questions and determine where he wants to go. You don’t send your customer where you like to go, or to where the fare is cheapest, you send him where he wants to go ? where his needs will be met.

And so it is in our role as parents. Our job is helping our children discover their own talents and inclinations. Our desire should be to send them where God has uniquely prepared them to go.

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