Ambition is essential, but there’s a thin line between dream and over-ambitiousness. The line between care and too much care should be addressed. The best case is when parents have realistic hopes and encourage the child to excel in whatever he takes up.[1] Unfulfilled ambitions form the base of increased and unrealistic expectations.[3] The parents have envisioned a life for themselves or kept a bucket list to be ‘successful’ according to societal parameters. And if they are judged there, it is the final straw to make them feel worse. G. Straub, “Parental (over-) ambition in competitive youth sport : A multi-theoretical approach,” Ger.