How to Inspire Your Child's Ambition

Author: Li Ping
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: In China, most parents experience this contradiction: on one hand, they hope their children will achieve great success in the future, dreaming of them becoming outstanding individuals. On the other hand, they financially undermine their children's aspirations, teaching them not to be ambitious, not to aim too high, not to set overly lofty goals, and not to seek the spotlight. They don't want their children to be mediocre, yet they use various methods to make them increasingly so. "To be just like everyone else"—this is the mindset of the vast majority of Chinese parents when educating their children. The public's prejudice against ambition is actually rooted in the fact that history has been written by the victors. However, the positive role of ambition in a person's success and becoming a great talent is, I believe, self-evident! It seems that in history, no mediocre person has ever been called an "ambitious one." With proper guidance, a child's ambition can become the driving force behind their future success. "A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier!" A child without ambition is an ordinary person.