Parents have to give them freedom for their thoughts. Parents have to give them both environment mind and physic activity where they will decide which one is best for them. Don't take their decision better try to give them clarity of the situations and pros and cons of decisions. Let them grow by themselves. Let them fall so they can learn how to face failure and then how to accept success. Don't decide that your children have to do this and that. Please give them chance to explain their life by taking different experience.