Parunts live vicariously through their spawn - Research shows :rolleyes2 June 20, 2013 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 883 |
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Yes, mom may really be pushing you into marching band because she always wanted to be drum major. New research finds that, consistent with what kids may believe, parents really do hope to live out unfulfilled ambitions through their children.
Parents are more likely to hope that their child fulfills their own broken dreams when they see their kid as part of themselves, according to the study, which appears online today (June 19) in the journal PLOS ONE.
"The child's achievements may come to function as a surrogate for parents' own unfulfilled ambitions," said study researcher Eddie Brummelman, a doctoral psychology student at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. "In this way, a sense of oneness with their children may compel parents to transfer their unfulfilled ambitions on to them.
The more they thought of their child as an extension of themselves, the more strongly they wanted the child to achieve their unfulfilled ambitions."
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Personally, I advocate moving cross country on the day of their 18th birthday as a solution for these children.
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