My kids are both aiming for careers in their creative fields, like I did at their age. I try to encourage them as much as I can.

But at the same time, part of me wants to tell them “Y'know, really it's OK if you don't end up earning a living from this and you do something else instead.” I suspect they might not be old enough yet to believe it. I know that if my dad had given me that advice back then, I wouldn't have believed him either. And besides, maybe they're different from me that way...