If we are successful, we will be motivated to do even better. If we keep failing, we would not even want to do it again.
If we want our children to be motivated, they need to feel successful in whatever they are doing.
Have our Malay children taste enough success in their lives? Or once they start school, that's the beginning of their 'feel like a failure' journey because of the highly publicised fact that 'Malays are a failure at mathematics and/ or academic performance'?
How should parents make their child feel successful?
Does parents especially of low socio-economic status feel that they are already a failure at parenting or that their lives are already so pre-determined to be doomed that they are not motivated to believe that there are better futures?
Why do we often make parents feel like a failure for our underperformance in mathematics?
Because failure begets de-moralisation and de-motivation.
Just some random thoughts this week that are circling in my head.
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