Success

 

People within the same family may seem to have the same values and yet, their children turn out massively different.

I think everyone wants their loved ones to succeed and tries to give them the tools to do so.

The difference may be in the expectations.

I wanted my children to have the manners, the experiences, the curiosity and the desire to achieve whatever their hearts desired. I gave them the encouragement and the opportunities to play different sports, different musical instruments, and participate in those things they loved at school.

I tried never to set a goal, hoping they would reach as high as they wanted to .

Other people are more focused on protecting their children. They allow them to quit out of fear of failing. They don't encourage them to reach too high because they might not succeed. They enable them when their fears rise up and threaten them rather than urging them on.

So many of the goals for children under twenty are there to help them find out who they are. Not being the best at any of them, or even discovering they are terrible at some of them will not really affect their long term abilities, but not trying and giving it their all teaches them to fail. 

Learning to avoid failure is not the same thing as success.