How to help your kids make career choices.

Every parents wants to be involved in choosing a career or get involved in choosing a course of study for their kids in school, in as much as this is a normal thing to be concern about, a lot of parents make the mistakes of totally making the decision and choosing a course of study for their kids, some parents wants their kids to study the course they themselves never got the opportunity to study, or they choose courses they didn’t have the intellectual capacity to study, some choose courses that have no interest to their kids just because their friends kids are studying such course.

Parents should talk with their kids about what course interest them now, and show them that interest could change in the future, thus guiding them making rational decision.

Parents should build trust, by positively influencing their kids to make smart decision based on ultimate career goal and present interest, this conflict of interest and career goal can be confusing for young kids.

kids are easily encouraged to go after courses they are good at, a child might be good in science subjects but just because the father is very successful in law, and he is well respected in the society, the child might just want to be like daddy and go for law in the university, and this may not be the best for that kid, so parents should be able to come in, in such scenario and advise the child on the best decision for that child.

As good parents, that want the best for your child, you should in a subtle and playful way ask your child these following questions:

1)      Which subjects/courses does your kid feel passionate about?

2)      Which subjects immediately grabs your child attention and imagination when talking about academics at home and in class?

3)      Which subjects gives your child sustainable source of stimulation?

 Do not totally take control of making the decision without the child, I will discourage this practice for parents in totality, there are so many ways for parents to get involved in the decision making process for their kids career choices, or the course of study for their kids in the university.

There are so many ways parents can get involved in the decision making process of their kids choosing a career and none of them encourages the parent to be the one to pick a course or a career for their wards.  As a parent, you know what your children loves to do when they were younger and what gets their attention, you should be able to motivate a child to follow his or her dream in whatever field that interest them, I will advise that parent encourages and guide their children to becoming whatever they choose to study, by doing this, the child will be encouraged to be the best in anything they choose to do.

When parents take the lead in choosing a career or selecting a course of study for their children, the ultimate effect will result to the child failing in these selected courses or careers, the child in most cases will suffer, that is why you see a young men in collage studying courses like medicine but cannot do well or students in law but cannot seem to have any idea about what the law is all about, in these cases the child suffers because the end result will be a young man being confused and not knowing what to do in their profession life.

The society suffers when parent select careers and chooses academic course for their wards, this is because a child may not have interest in such courses and end up failing or being average in what their parents have chosen for them to study, this will affect their productivity when they get into the labor market and thus reducing the potential of innovation which drives and aid growth in a particular field, thus affecting that sector.

Every child is unique and have different level of consuming information thus should be left alone with little guidance to choice what he or she want to study in the university.

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