ames- so true!
why do parents have to push their children into what they are not cut out to do? I know a family from way back. Their son was not cut out to learn f/t. He’s very skilled with his hands and wanted to learn a trade, like carpentry or something. It wasnt that he wasnt smart or anything-he just knew where his strengths lay. His parents forced him to stay in yeshiva and wouldnt hear otherwise. The boy, R”L is now off the derech.
I am not saying that this can happen to anyone but that if parents push their children one way or the other and the kids are not cut out for it- it wont be good. sometimes the parents dont know best, I am very sorry to say.