Bears

Theres an old joke about two schoolboys that basically goes as follows: Johnny, one of the boys, would go off to school every morning, and as he left his mother would yell, Johnny, dont forget your lunch! The other boy, Steven, would go off, and as he did, his mother would yell, Steven, dont forget your books! Johnny grew up to be a successful restaurateur and Steven a world-renowned brain surgeon.

I think you get the gist of the joke. Johnnys mother, by placing an emphasis on lunch, unwittingly steered her son to pursue a gastronomic career; whereas, Stevens mother, by placing an emphasis on books, either consciously or unconsciously steered her son toward a career in medicine. As Gordon Gekko said in the movie Wall Street, The illusion has b come real, and the more real it b comes, the more desperate they want it. By relating this quote back to the joke of the two schoolboys, you can see that the illusion of being smart to Steven had b come very real indeed. Whether he was born smart or not does not matter. Once the illusion crystallizes into reality, the desire to attain the object behind it b comes desperate.

The point here is that self-perception is critical to both failure and success. If we raise our children to expect failureindeed to deem themselves as failuresthen guess what? Failure is as certain as a downpour from three large overhanging black clouds. On the contrary, if we breed into our children a self-perception of success and triumph, then success is as certain as daybreak after dark.

Remember parents. Your childrenour children---are our future. We need to handle them with great care. There is enough criticism to go around for a thousand generations. In raising our kids, lets not make the mistake of buffeting them with constant criticism. If you want your kids to do well in school, convince them that they are smart and will do well in school. If you want them to be aces in math, expect them to be whiz kids and tell them how smart they are with numbers and that sort of thing.

Watch the results as the illusion b comes real. If you doubt what I say, try this out for a short period of time and see the changes that occur in your kids. Force upon them naturally the desire to want the illusion. Once you set this force in motion, the rest is self-fulfilling. After all, what is the alternative? If you try this and your kid does not end up a brain surgeon, he might end up being a very successful restaurateur.

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