Kids will never learn how to survive failure if we don't let them fail, sure, we know that, absolutely, and yet, who wants to stand back and let your kid fail? We're finding the not intervening thing to be easier said than done, but on occasion we do manage to foster a little independence and admire the power of shame.

On this week’s Roundabout Roundup, Nicole loves the beautiful pictures of her home country at Images of Canada on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/imagesofcanada/]. Catherine is shouting out Wisconsin Public Television's shout-out to her daughter's skating team [https://www.wisconsinlife.org/story/practice-makes-perfect-for-the-fond-du-lac-blades-on-the-world-stage/]. And Terri finally found a good vitamin source at Healthwarehouse.com [https://www.healthwarehouse.com/].

Sending our kids out into the big wide world everyday is tough, especially when we know all the little things they don't quite know or aren't quite good at. So how do we do it? We'll meet you in the surveillance van. Bring some snacks.

To quote Free to Be You and Me, "Some kind of help is the kind of help we all can do without." Specifically, when we ask for help, we would like to be relieved of the mental burden of whatever it is you're helping us with. Please!

On our entertainment-themed Round 2 this week, The Good Place is back with "You've Changed, Man," which ends with yet another plan for the afterlife, as well as a jar full of marbleized Janets. There's also plenty of planning on West Wing's "The Last Hurrah," as Arnie (or was it Ernie?) Vinick ponders his next move and the incoming Santos administration aims to fill its cabinet posts. Mentioned: Becoming by Michelle Obama [https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Michelle-Obama/dp/1524763136]. Next week: "Mondays, Am I Right?" on The Good Place and "Institutional Memory" on The West Wing.

We've all heard the buzzword, and we all know it's good for us. That doesn't make it any easier to make time for self-care--especially when our culture is all about toughing things out [https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/12/16/moms-are-putting-off-care-themselves-our-tough-it-out-culture-isnt-helping].

Being sick is no fun, but sometimes, we wish for the ability to just put school or work on hold for 24 hours and take good care of ourselves. Sick days are few and far between for freelancers, alas, and even sparser for parents. Do you get a sick day sometimes?

Watching the NBC drama This Is Us got us thinking profound thoughts about the way our childhoods have formed the people we are now ... and shallow thoughts about whether our own families would make for good TV shows. We take up that latter point today, and also contemplate how we'd make best use of the power to flashback.

On this week’s Roundabout Roundup, Catherine's feet are cozy thanks to Uggs insoles [https://www.ugg.com/women-footwear/sheepskin-insole/1101443.html], Nicole's following her felines with a GPS pet tracker [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07THKNGGP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1], and Terri discovered the dice game Left Right Center [https://www.amazon.com/George-GEO00001-Single-Blister-Game/dp/B00EO74GQY] during her family's stay at the Villa Roma resort in the Catskills [https://www.villaroma.com/].

Not only are we obsessed with embarrassing things that happened to us in high school, we're obsessed with trying to protect our kids from having the same obsession (and some of the other growing pains that come with adulthood).