Freedom that you can gift your child ahead of Father’s Day

Father’s Day is on June 21, and every dad must be excited as it is one day you would love to pamper your child. But there is something more you can give to your child this day. If you are a new parent, here are a few freedom that you can give to your child.

Give them the freedom to choose their own careers

As a dad, you should promise to yourself that you will allow or give your child the freedom to chart their own career. Do not impose career choices onto them. Most people live somebody else’s dreams. Do not impose your dream onto your child. Let your child understand what’s good or bad for his or her career. If you impose career choices onto them, and if they accept it grudgingly, they will blame you whole life for their unhappiness.

Give them the chance to learn and unlearn, and choose a career that interests them. Always back them for their career choices. If they make a wrong choice, and want to make amends, guide them. Take them to a career counsellor to help them choose the right career for them.

Give them the freedom to choose their own life partners

As a father, you don’t get the right to choose life partners for your child. Most parents believe it’s their duty to choose the life partner for their child. Unless your child feels ready for marriage, do not finalise a stranger for them, and get them married without their approval.

After all, it’s your child who has to stay his or whole life with their partner, and hence, they should be given the right to say yes or no to suitors, and not parents.

But be always there to help them in their search for life partners, if they request so.

Give them the freedom to make mistakes and learn

As a parent, you are always ready to help out your kids. Stop this practice right away. Unless your child learns from his mistakes, they will never come up in life. Allow your child to make mistakes, get hurt and learn the lessons themselves. 

A failure teaches more than success. Hence, encourage them to take failure in their stride and move on. Tell them not to be troubled by failures, but take it as a stepping stone to success.

Give them the freedom to make their own decisions

As a parent, we always make decisions for our kids. As long as a kid is still young to understand what he or she needs, it’s all right for parents to take decisions for them. But once a child has gain maturity, let him or her to take his or her own decision. It would be a great boost to the self-esteem of the child when they will come to know you value their decisions and suggestions. Never under-estimate them or their suggestions or decisions. Always encourage them.

Give them the freedom to choose what is right, what is wrong

We tend to create set rules for right and wrong. Who we are to impose on our child about right and wrong? Let your child understand the rights and wrongs of the society, using his or her own judgement, reasoning and analytical thinking. Let not your child judge on somebody else’s thinking and reasoning.

If you want to see your child grow up as a confident individual, encourage them to make their own choices on right or wrong. But as a parent, it’s your responsibility to see you have given them all the right values that you have lived for. 

Let you be an example or role model for them. You don’t need to do much. You just need to do the right things and your child will observe and follow.