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The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
The Gift of Failure How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed Author:Jessica Lahey Teachers and coaches have long been aware of the detrimental effects overprotective parents have on children, but lately there has been a whole new level of overprotectiveness: parents who rush to school when their child calls about forgotten lunches, forgotten assignments, or wanting better grades on the final reports. Though these parents are ... more »being highly responsive to the needs of their children, they aren't giving them the chance to experience failure and learn to solve their own problems. Students need the room to roll with the punches, find their way through the gauntlet of adolescence, and transform into resourceful, competent, and confident adults.« less