"I love you too much to deny you the privilege of making mistakes." This was said by Kathie Lee Gifford's Dad, and we love it! Failure is hard, but it's essential! Today we talk all about the importance of failure. 

• Failure is about learning
  • It's essential! - Mistakes are for learning
  • 5 Things Failure Teaches Us (Forbes):
    1. Keeps your ego in check
    2. Inspires positive change
    3. Gives you a new perspective
    4. Teaches resilience
    5. Teaches you want you want (and don't want)
  • Let your teen fail while they're still with you and you can help them
• How to allow failure and still be supportive
  • Make risk-taking a family value
  • Teach your teen to expect failure as part of the process
  • Don't solve your teens problems for them
  • Support your student by letting go
    • Give her tools. Give her resources. But let her use them. 
• Final thoughts about failure
  • "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor" - Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • "In the long run, our biggest regrets are not our actions, but our inactions." -Adam Grant
  • Les Brown's "ghost" analogy

 

Resources:

• Let Your Teen Fail, https://parentandteen.com/let-your-teen-fail
• Should I Let My Kids Fail, https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/parenting/should-i-let-my-kids-fail
• The Value of Failing,  https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/04/the-value-of-failing/558848/
• Failure Found to be an Essential Prerequisite for Success, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/failure-found-to-be-an-essential-prerequisite-for-success/
• Forbes, Why Failure Leads to Career Success, https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecastrillon/2019/11/20/why-failure-leads-to-career-success/?sh=f0f489575780
• Adam Grant, The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers,  https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
• Are Helicopter Parents Ruining a Generation?  https://youtu.be/CeltnroSGco
• Denzel Washington Fall Forward Speech https://www.characteractionmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/D-Washington-Speech-Transcript.pdf

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