Haseeb Khan is an actor, writer as well as a teacher. He is a professor and motivational speaker and he has a real time experience and camaraderie with youngsters. He was a guest on Masarrat Misbah’s show and he talked about how kids are set up for failures and how societal expectations and parents accelerate this process of failure.
Haseeb said that parents keep too much expectations from their children. 90% marks and topping in academics becomes the sole criteria for excellence and as all children are not alike, these expectations set children up to feel like failures.
Here is what he shared:
Quoting 3 idiots, Haseeb Khan also talked about parents who never teach their children to be happy. Happiness is never a goal and their undue pressures on the child makes him lose his personality. The child is never allowed to fulfil his dreams and he only has to do what is warranted by the parents.
This is what he said:
He advised children to connect their parents to their dreams. He advised kids of today to tell and make their parents understand what they want in life and always spend time with their parents. He said that connecting with your parents is the ultimate success and everyone should aim for it.
Listen to the advice:
