Tiger sibling dilema - passion vs practicality

blossom
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:10:11 +0000

Hunt- we’re not talking about the star forward of his junior HS basketball team planning to join the NFL. Or the girl who played Auntie Mame to great acclaim in her HS fall musical who thinks she’s heading to Broadway. Or even your town’s violin teacher telling you that your kid is the most gifted player she has ever taught in 15 years and he should apply to Curtis and Julliard. In those cases, when the stakes are so high and the odds are so low and the personal sacrifices required are so astronomical not to mention the financial investment in training etc… then yeah, get an independent opinion about your kids innate talent, drive, potential…

But being a vet? when every town in America has a vet practice or animal hospital? Really- the kid can’t become a vet? That’s an unattainable dream for this kid?

All of a sudden this is akin to being a prima ballerina?