Dear parents, don’t sh!t on your children’s dreams. When I was young, my mom asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I answered cheerfully, “a singer!” I can vividly remember the disappointed look on my mother’s face. She then laughed at me and turned on my father while saying, “naku! Sa beerhouse lang naman pala magtatrabaho ‘to paglaki!” My father didn’t utter any word to justify my answer. Since then, tumigil na ko sa pagkanta.