If you have plans/dreams that are different from the dreams your parents have for you, your life may be filled with arguments, disagreements, and the like.  The decision is yours to make, but you may have regrets.....

In the song 'The Living Years,' Mike & The Mechanics "talk" about such a struggle....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLmYXTlZN4bBLiYNV-KrhlU0dV3NS6jpHQ&v=uGDA0Hecw1k

"My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go."
- Barbara Corcoran

"I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities."
- Tina Fey

Courage does not depend on size. The movie 'Twins' shows an excellent example this.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096320/

Movie 'It Takes Two':
The parents seemed to have less courage than the kids. Was it because of maturity?
https://youtu.be/6PKq7YSpO6c

#SongLesson:

From the song 'The Living Years' by MIKE & THE MECHANICS:

You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defense

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts

So don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different date
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be O.K.

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agC7SoihH-o

#Wise words and advice from Mike and the Mechanics in the song 'The Living Years':

See lyrics with some comments:
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/m/mike_the_mechanics/the_living_years.html
(site not connected to or affiliated with LifeLessonsForAll.com)

Lyric video (from YouTube):

Do you expect individuals (adults, grown children/kids) to think, act and behave like their parents who raised them?
Would you expect parents to know more about their children because they raised them (because they have an insider view)?
In the movie 'Divergent', the children seemed very different from their parents.

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."
- Abigail Van Buren

"Your parents owe you nothing.
They have already given you everything… Life itself.
They did the best the knew how to at the time, given the resources they had.
When you stop making them responsible for what you feel today, you access your power to really live."
- Blog post by Kute Blackson, Stop Blaming Your Parents. Give It Up. Stop. Let It Go!,
http://thedailylove.com/stop-blaming-your-parents-give-it-up-stop-let-it-go/

Adults are free to choose their own path and should make responsible choices. Should parents be blamed for the choices of their children when they become adults?

(See the question posted in LifeLessonsForAll.com's LessonsAsk group in LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Should-adults-blame-their-parents-8262188.S.5976123456197050368?trk=groups_most_recent-0-b-ttl&goback=.gmr_8262188)