Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
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If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.
Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.
A lot of kids are broken, and it's hard for them to believe in anything. But you have to have an imaginative mind and tell yourself, 'Hey, I can do whatever I want to.'
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
I think the main thing for kids is to have them believe in themselves.
Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
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