YOU can be whatever you want to..be hard working and tolerant

Instead of telling children that they are special and they can be anything they want to, we should emphasize self-control and hard work.

·         Do you agree or disagree with this view on parenting?

Basically, children are children and they pick up much more from their parents and home than from anyone and anywhere. In such a context, encouraging them to have greater self-control and an attitude to hard work would work wonders in the long run. ‘You can be anything you want to be’ is not cut for all.

My ultimate point is that self-control makes children enjoy greater degree of emotional intelligence. Let me prove it with and example. If children are made to believe that they are so special and able to become whatever they want to, there will be all likely-hood for them to lose sight of everything other than their goals and ambitions dictate them to see. This is really disappointing; for life keeps great many more beautiful things in store for children, and those tolerant children would have great childhood, eventful adulthood and contented life thereafter.

The penultimate point is that there is only one shortcut to success in life; that is called hard-work. History has it that man has been able to work wonders in their life out of sheer hard work and perseverance. To exemplify it, I am going to correlate hard work with ambition or ‘anything you want to be’ attitude. No one can be something unless there is hard work. Ambition or the ‘you can be anyone’ mindset would not work without hard work. Self control and hard work are prerequisite for success.

In short, it is always better for children to be driven by self-control and hard work. Being able to become something out of one’s motivated ambition is much less rewarding than being successful in any form by sheer hard work. All children are special, but not all are hard-working.    

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