If parents bring up a child with the sold aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster . This is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make.Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage tho children.

However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do , but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well – especially if the parents are very supportive of their child .

Do An Duc is very lucky . He is crazy about music , and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lesson for him . Although Duc’s parents know very little about music , they have tried their best to help their son with his interest . However , they never make him enter music competitions if he is unwilling .

Duc’s friend , Vu Hoang Duy , however , is not so lucky . Although both his parents are successful musicians , they set too high a standard for Duy . They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held . They are very unhappy when he does not win . “When I was at your age , I used to win every competition I entered ,” Duy’s father tells him . Duy is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy