The article discusses the balance parents must find between protecting their children from failure and allowing them essential learning experiences. Using the example of the author's son taking a door-to-door solar panel sales job, it illustrates the anxiety parents often feel about their children's potential failures. Instead of hovering and preventing all risks, the article advocates for teaching children to embrace manageable failures, thereby building resilience and good judgment, which can lead to meaningful growth and independence in the long run.
As a parent, it's natural to want to shield your kids from failure. But we often hover over our kids in what are arguably low-stakes situations, inadvertently robbing them of essential learning experiences.
Struggling to manage the bind, parents suffer. And so do their kids. But there is a path forward that avoids either/or thinking and helps kids build good judgment to accompany a learning-oriented, adventuresome spirit.
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