What were your childhood dreams? Did you want to be an astronaut? What changed your mind? How do you know if changing your mind was what God wanted for your life or if He had another plan you missed somehow?
These are extremely important questions, not only for your life, but also for the lives of your children. The God who cares enough to know the number of hairs on their head, who sent His Son to die on the cross for their sins, and who tells us multiple times in scripture He will guide their steps (Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 30:21, James 1:5-6 and many, many more) – must surely care about where they go to school, whom they date and marry, their career choices and their ministry choices. Our children have free will, but how much more rich and fulfilling their lives will be if they can align their decisions with what God knows is best for them?!
So what do your kids need to know about having godly dreams? There are a lot of things they will learn as they go through the process, but here are some I have learned over the years:
Have you ever met someone who claimed to be something they really weren’t? You probably believed them at first. As time went on though, you begin to notice their actions didn’t match their claims. They lacked integrity. Sculptors understand about integrity. If the metal or stone they use is bonded into a whole, it is much stronger than if it is divided with thin pieces going in different directions. (Which is why old sculptures are often missing heads, arms, etc.)
Have you ever said “What in the world were you thinking” to a child? My guess is you didn’t get a very helpful response. 
by Greg Warburton suggests asking the right questions can move you and your children from their reliance on your help to make good choices to their self-reliance.
Have you ever taken a child to what was advertised as a children’s movie only to find your self very uncomfortable? Ever turned on the television to watch a “family show” only to find yourself distracting your kids so they won’t see or hear something? Or maybe your tween son wants a particular game. Perhaps your daughter wants to Netflix a popular movie at her sleepover. You may even have a child who reads so many books you long ago gave up trying to know what your child reads and just pray it isn’t anything too bad.
Ask almost any mother of daughters about “mean girls” and you will most likely hear a litany of horror stories. The really sad part is it seems to start at younger ages every year. Our first really stereotypical incident happened in fourth grade to our daughter, but there were girls behaving in “mean” ways as early as kindergarten.