What do South Asian parents want from their children
What do South Asian parents desire from their children? Isn’t it a cliche when pertaining to the fact that what they want is so unconditional?
We want to see our children happy, healthy, and prosperous pursuing their dreams regardless of their faith, age, gender, or station in life. We need their lives as lively as we can make them.
It would be ideal to hear that from our parents that they want us to be true to ourselves above all the dogma of culture or people.
Regardless of religion.
Regardless of country.
Regardless of gender.
Regardless of age.
As parents, we will protect our children against prejudice, discrimination, and disdain of other people in the community who hold onto staunch belief of the old mindset.
We are educated.
We are free.
We promote basic human rights and privileges.
We encourage our children to follow truth regardless of it being ugly or beautiful, regardless of it offending or assisting or regardless of it being self-serving or not. And that is acceptable that sometimes it hurts us, mostly individually but it something so firm that we should onto forever.
We grow stronger with our family, religious and cultural values, yet still, be amazing individuals pursuing our own calling in life. And indeed it is the way how it should go, like everyone is born with their own mind, differing in many uncountable aspects. So how can we expect each and everyone of them following the same paths, having the same paths, thinking the same way? It just doesn’t make sense at all! If it does for you, then you certainly need to change your views about them!
Change is the only permanent thing and at that, there is no permanence.
So why hold onto life so tight.
Let it flow for ourselves and our children to make their happiness, health, and prosperity be the main aim in life.
It is not a foreign concept and it can permeate into your new consciousness.
So what our child does not live at home, so what they married out of the culture or so what they pursued a non-traditional life.
We will see examples of that in other families and must adjust yourself to the changes.
We may want to fulfill our un-lived lives, dreams, and hopes through your children.
We may want them to bring us honor, respect, and fame. That’s not the harsh thing to ask but instead of implementing our thinking onto them we should give them the chance of doing that by their method.
We may want them to become a sports star, doctor, or lawyer that we wanted to become.
We may want them to marry a certain somebody.
Just because we put our dreams on the shelf for later, we stayed in the shadows, we were shallow with our own dreams, we shrank our dreams or just shopped around all our lives. It does not mean that we shoot our children’s dreams down or not let them shine.
We will encourage our children, build them up, support them, and stand by them to achieve their highest potential in the endeavor they choose and be the cheerleaders.
We love them unconditionally because they are the future and they have their own calling and an inner voice that they must listen to.
We will be their friends and parents, a safe place that they can call home. A place where they know no one would judge them regardless of any belief they have and anything that might make themselves uncomfortable to talk about in front of others.
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