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If your child quietly compares themselves to high-achieving siblings or peers, this honest<\/p>\n

conversation will help. Note: It briefly discusses suicide, so please choose what feels right for you.<\/p>\n

What happens when the thing you worked so hard to achieve makes you question what success even means? Melissa Lozanovski is an educator, leader, former founding principal, and mum. <\/p>\n

At school, she compared herself to academically high-achieving siblings and carried quiet pressure to measure up. She entered teaching young, led early, and built a new school from the ground up, while privately navigating grief, burnout, and a health scare that forced harder questions about what matters. <\/p>\n

Her framework of becoming, belonging, and lifelong learning offers parents a hopeful way to think about success beyond grades, titles, and recognition, and why every child’s path unfolds differently.<\/p>\n

🎧 What you’ll discover:<\/p>\n

• How comparison with siblings and peers shapes a child’s confidence<\/p>\n

• Why one adult believing in a young person changes everything<\/p>\n

• The emotional weight that can sit behind outward success<\/p>\n

• Protecting wellbeing while chasing achievement<\/p>\n

• Why belonging and emotional safety matter for growth<\/p>\n

• Thinking about success beyond grades and titles<\/p>\n

Know someone with a unique story or path? Share it with us at morethanascorepod@gmail.com!<\/p>\n

If this conversation brings anything up for you, support is available:<\/p>\n

• Lifeline Australia (24\/7): https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au or 13 11 14<\/p>\n

• Beyond Blue: https:\/\/www.beyondblue.org.au or 1300 22 46 36<\/p>\n

• Kids Helpline (for people aged 5–25): https:\/\/kidshelpline.com.au or 1800 55 1800<\/p>\n

More Than a Score: Redefining Success Beyond School is hosted by Laura Pitt and Dan Steele, a former teacher and award-winning school leader on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. New episodes fortnightly. Subscribe to follow along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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