If you take the time to mentor your children, love them well, speak into their lives, give them a spiritually rich atmosphere, they will indeed surprise you. My children have all grown far beyond my expectations. That resulted out of their own personal direction and choice.
But I learned more clearly that children are the most valuable resource of any country in all of history, and their capacity to excel, to create, to accomplish is vast because they were endowed with amazing capacity in their hearts, souls, and minds.
From Awaking Wonder.