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Originally Posted by mrscoach
As her mother I encourage her to follow her dreams, while still making backup plans. I am happy that she now plans to attend college and major in both fashion design and marketing. She wants to be able to design AND market her own line. If she can do this while singing she will be even happier.
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Sometimes the difference between being good and great is a little encouragement. There really are enough negatives in a run-of-the-mill life without having your dreams crushed when you're young.
My mother, who's in her seventies now, recently took up drawing and painting. When she was a little girl, sometime after ten, and before being a teenager, she joined an art class in her school. In her first lesson, at the end of the lesson, her "teacher" held up her work to the class and said (words to the effect of), "This is a good example of how some people cannot be taught. You can either draw or you can't. And if you can't you shouldn't bother ..."
That little speech shattered a dream that day, and a desire to create. Only some sixty years later was my mother able to put that woman's comments in perspective. The upside of that event was that my mother also taught children and she used that woman's words as a reminder of how not to be.