Sunday, January 9, 2011

Allowing failure can foster success in children

By Gregory Ramey, Cox Newspapers January 9, 2011

We are making extraordinary and inappropriate efforts to enclose our children in a kind of psychological bubble wrap to protect them from distress, dangers or difficulties.

That was my message at a recent parenting workshop.

Allow your children to fail and learn from the experiences of sadness, rejection, hurt and even life's inevitable unfairness.

This advice goes against every parental instinct, which is to protect our children from any unpleasant feelings. While constant failure is certainly bad for any child, so is the other extreme of kids who are overprotected from life's realities.  FULL STORY

It sure doesn't go against my instincts as a father.  But I suspect that's why getting rid of Daddy from the family is CPS' job #1.

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