However, Chen's parents also discouraged her from pursuing conducting as they felt it would be a difficult career path for a woman.

They went steady and discussed marriage, but their parents discouraged the idea.

Kseniya's parents discouraged her from a career as an artist.

Both might agree, then, that it is a good thing if parents discourage children from watching too much television.

European parents in previous centuries discouraged it as being too animal-like.

At the same time, parents should not discourage sports because a child is physically awkward or clumsy.

Ms. Jackson said many parents are so confused and discouraged, they have given up.

This is an interest which her academic parents discourage.

These same parents often discourage in their children the very talents which, if permitted to develop, would make them successful.

He laments that parents, high school teachers and even counselors often discourage young people from the trade.