THE PARENTING MANIFESTO PROJECT
From Rebecca in AR:
Let your kids know that as long as they grow up to be good people, you don't have the final say in what they become, but love and support them anyway.
My parents let me know that they loved me, no matter what path I took, and even though I went to undergrad school for theatre, I got my MBA and now have a great job. Friends took the opposite path (business school first because their parents insisted) and ended up miserable and are now thinking about changing careers.
We're using that with DD (my partner has the same philosophy) and even though it's looking like we're going to have a queer daughter who wants to be in the military, which is the last place she *should* want to go all things considered, she knows we love her, support and respect her decision, and want her to go Air Force or Navy like our respective families have. :-)
