🧔👱‍♀Parental Aspirations👩‍👩‍👦

Pre-Reading Questions

What do you think your parents would like your future to be?

To what extent are the hopes of your parents the same as yours?

If you and your parents have different ambitions for your future, how do you feel about it?

Reading Passage

Now read the passage below. You can look up the meanings of the words and phrases in bold in the Vocabulary Study section that follows.

Educational qualifications are considered to be very important in the modern world. They are essential for people who want to find reasonably well-paid employment in the professions. For this reason, most parents try to get their children to work hard at school and achieve academic success by doing well in exams. Many parental aspirations also include their children going to university and graduating with a good degree.

Not all children, however, are capable of achieving academic success. This does not matter as long as parents are willing to accept this, but it is quite common for parents to think that all their children have to do is to study hard and they will pass their exams. All too often, they just succeed in causing too much stress in their offspring, with the result that the children either get ill or fail exams that they might otherwise have passed.

There are some children who are quite bright, but who are simply not interested in formal learning. Some might be of an artistic bent and wish to become an artist or designer while some might have a talent for acting. Others may show an aptitude for working with their hands, or want to start their own businesses and become entrepreneurs.

It is perfectly possible for children to achieve such ambitions. However, their parents may well have other ideas, which can lead to family conflict. Strangely enough, many parents are often reluctant to allow children to follow in their footsteps. For example, actors may not wish their children to have a career in the theatre, because of the uncertainty of the profession. Business people may feel that their children will have more status in an academic profession than in the world of commerce.

The opposite situation also arises. Parents who have worked hard to establish a business may want their children to become part of it, only to find that their sons and daughters prefer to look for completely different occupations.

Each generation has different ideas, making communication between the two extremely difficult. Thus, has arisen the aptly named generation gap.

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