Modern Australian

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
Protecting your kids from failure isn't helpful. Here's how to build their resilienceFailure is a gift disguised as a bad experience.from www.shutterstock.com

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,...