Expectations

Why do parents have such high expectations for their children? They want them to do everything their way: receive high grades, play the sports they played, be in every extra-curricular activity that will help them get into the higher colleges. The kids get so stressed out that they cannot take it. If they do bad at the sport they play they pressure them into doing it right until they do not want to play anymore. They turn their kids out of a passion that they used to have. If they get an A- they make them fix it until they get an A. Sometimes it is nearly impossible to get an A on an assignment. The teacher/professor may not be a great teacher and the tests could be extremely difficult making it nearly impossible to pass, expecially when the teacher says that no one has gotten over a B on any of his tests in the past forty years. One little mistake and their relationship is over. They treat them like animals no matter how hard they try to become what they want them to be. It amazes me how some parents can have no respect for their children. They show no love for them and only show them respect when they do good. All people want is to love and to be loved in return. With parents who do not show them love they might not be able to show love to someone else or even their kids when they get older. They will treat them the same way they were treated as a child. People need to show compassion and love to their children even in their hard times in life.