You would have probably heard a toddler, or a five-year old once say 'I want to be an astronaut when I grow up', or 'I want to be a doctor when I grow up'. While some children take this to heart, some just say it for fun, and they change their mind over the next couple of years. From the point where a child has decided their future career/s or the stream/s they will pursue, they would have started to work hard to achieve their goal. But not everyone wanting to study at the University of Oxford would really get an offer, would they? And this is where the question sparks to mind.. Why do most children fail to achieve their dreams?
One of the main reasons children fail to achieve their dreams is over-ambition. While some children step into the reality, and understand how much effort, and hard work it would take to reach their goal, some remain in their fictional and magical world, where they think that everything will happen no matter what happens. This is where most students fail - not having a realistic goal. Being ambitious is wonderful, and planning for your future is even better. But when students get over ambitious, that is where the problem starts. Students begin to have high expectations of themselves and expect everything to go to plan. To set a goal, one must first know their real self; their strengths and their weaknesses. Without knowing these, planning your future career is like doing surgery without knowing which areas to incise.
Another fundamental factor that contributes to children failing to achieve their dreams is the 'DREAMING'. If one is aiming to become an astronaut, but comes home from school everyday and watches TV, they would really need to start rethinking their future. Some children 'dream' of getting into an elite, top private school, but take no action on it. Dreaming, and imagining yourself in a business suit in your office in 20 years feels wonderful, and is wonderful. But alongside dreaming, we also must take some action.
Another reason children don't achieve their goals is giving up. Life is never easy, even for the smartest intellectuals on Earth. As people say, 'Life is a roller coaster; there are ups and downs'. When life gets harder, people usually give up, especially children. But the ones who push themselves through the hardest obstacles are the successful people. Due to this, children, in the middle of their up-scaling progress, tend to drop the ball, and give up. In education, it's not only the accuracy, but the consistency also matters.
Another factor that contributes to a child's failure of not achieving their goals is low confidence. This is partly related to the previous factor (giving up when life gets harder). When things get harder, and start to fall out of our hands, we start to lose our confidence. As one's confidence falters, the ambition and commitment to achieve their goal is slowly fading away and is lost. It is indeed very hard to boost your confidence through tough times, but that is the job of a committed student. Commitment and consistency are the keys that open the door to the pathway leading to success.
So, in summary, alongside the fact that inconsistent grades, no determination, and ineffective study methods lead to academic failures and the failure to achieve your dreams, there are many other factors that contribute to this, like over- ambition, low confidence and many more listed in the above paragraphs. It is very important to consider these factors before considering your or your child's future. Because, if tomorrow is not planned well, the day after that will automatically become worse. And that applies to anyone's future...'
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