Traditional education often reinforces this limited definition of success by focusing primarily on grades and test scores, rather than fostering a love of learning and helping children to develop their unique strengths and interests. This focus on external measures of success can have a detrimental effect on children's self-esteem, sense of purpose, and authentic self-expression.

When a child is born or even with the excitement of when a pregnancy is announced, a parent envisions what kind of future they want for their child. This may be a particular hobby or sport they really enjoyed themselves as a child, taking over a family business or the ambition of a successful career that they want their child to have as they themselves may have not been able to reach that goal or did reach that goal and find it to be the only way life should be lived. This way they already pre-determine their child’s future with all the things they want for their child. However when…