The Gift of Failure

The Gift of Failure focuses on the critical school years when parents need to take a step back and allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s inevitable problems so that they can grow up to be successful, resilient, and self-reliant adults. When kids experience failure, it gives them the opportunity to learn to solve their own problems.

Especially today in the modern world where studies show growing adults are unprepared for the world and their parents still do laundry, cook, clean, and schedule appointments for them,… This is practical and important advice for helping your child grow up to live in a world where they can navigate it confidently on their own. Lacey gives you a blueprint with advice for how to handle homework, report cards, social dynamics, and sports. Most importantly, she sets forth a plan to help parents learn to step back and embrace their children’s failures, as hard as that may be for you to do, you’ll soon see how important it is.

Link to buy: www.amazon.com/Gift-Failure-Parents-Children-Succeed/dp/0062299255