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Mark Zuckerberg told his daughter she can’t be Taylor Swift. A therapist said it’s a great lesson for parents.
That includes Mark Zuckerberg’s 7-year-old daughter, August Chan Zuckerberg.
In a recent interview for the podcast “Acquired,” Zuckerberg recounted taking August to a Taylor Swift concert. She told him she wanted to be like Swift when she grew up.
But he wanted her to rethink her dreams.
I was like, ‘But you can’t. That’s not available to you,'” Zuckerberg told hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal. “And she thought about it and she’s like, ‘Alright when I grow up I want people to want to be like August Chan Zuckerberg, and I was like, ‘Hell yeah. Hell yeah.'”
Annie Wright, a therapist in Maine, has worked with affluent parents who, like Zuckerberg, “grapple with how to give their children opportunities without inflating their sense of entitlement,” she told Business Insider.
“His advice to his daughter to aspire to be herself, not Taylor Swift or some other icon, I do think it’s an important reminder for all parents,” Wright said.
Among her clients, Wright said that parents struggle with Gen Zers (ages 12-27) and Gen Alphas (1-11) increasingly wanting to be influencers.