"**Respect includes setting high standards. You don’t respect your children’s abilities if you coddle them**. But you also don’t respect your children if you force them to excel in activities that have no personal meaning for them. Enforcing high standards only works when kids can bring some passion to what they’re doing. **You want them to be successful in whatever they pick, not what you pick**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[parenting]], [[trust]], [[expectations]], [[control]], [[self-control]], **Source** -- [[20250101093750 - B - How to Raise Successful People]]