Learning From Failure
When I posted a lengthy story/interview with author Lenore Skenazy — who wrote Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry — I neglected to include on this blog a YouTube video that she prominently mentioned in her book.
Arguing that parents shouldn’t try to protect their children from every risk, thereby robbing them of valuable learning opportunities, Skenazy said that encouraging an “If I fail, so what? I will try again” mindset is considered to be a child’s “surest path to success.”
I finally looked up the “Life=Risk” video she mentioned in her chapter, “Fail! It’s the New Succeed.” And I think I’m going to keep it bookmarked and pull it up onto the computer screen the next time one of my Picket Fence Post kids is feeling down or discouraged.
Author and columnist Meredith O'Brien gives you a peek behind the picket fences of modern day life and parenting in the 'burbs. With humor and candor, it's her take on real parenting in the real world.
