Protecting your kids from failure isn't helpful. Here's how to build their resilience
- Written by Mandie Shean, Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
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In recent years, there has been a concerted effort to protect children from failure in order to safeguard their fragile self-esteem. This seems logical – failure is unpleasant. It tends to make you look bad, you have negative feelings of disappointment and frustration,...
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