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There are several common factors that parents of successful children have:

• Parents of successful children teach their children to develop strong social skills, often role-modelling these directly. Socially skilled children who can learn to cooperate with others, be kind and helpful, and who can understand their own emotions are more likely to go on to university and secure a full-time job by the time they are in their twenties.
• Parents of successful children generally have mothers who work. Daughters of working mums are more likely to secure a more successful career than those raised by stay-at-home mums. Sons of working mums also tend better to learn their responsibilities towards domestic and childcare duties. All children with working mothers develop a clearer understanding and belief in gender equality.
• Parents of successful children have generally achieved higher levels of education themselves and have high expectations. "... what one person expects of another can serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy."
• Parents of successful children do not overly exhibit stress or anxiety. They provide a secure emotional base for their children. If a parent is tired, anxious or stressed, this will impact their child.
• Parents of successful children value their child's effort more than their achievement. They see failure not as something to avoid, but as a challenge to overcome, as a prompt to grow further and stretch abilities.