Juggling university studies with a part-time job can be demanding to say the least, not to mention trying to keep up with social commitments too. Every child can get the occasional disappointing grade. As parents, you know your kids well, such as what they like and dislike, their habits and passions. However, gaining an understanding of their specific learning style can be just as important as all the things listed above. How could I have done better?
What skills do I need to improve? What are the steps I need to take to get there? Bernstein, a graduate of Duke University, credits her creativity to a childhood of boredom, relying on only her imagination to fill the blank canvas — with magic.
Concerned this generation of children is missing out on the kind of unstructured downtime and child-led play that enables them to find their passions and purpose through exploration, Bernstein is leading a movement to Take Back Childhood. A mother of six, she dreams of a day when kids are free from overscheduling, undue pressure, and digital distractions so they may develop into free thinkers and realize their full potential. She lives in Westport, Connecticut with her husband and co-founder , Doug, and their family.
Find more play ideas here! For a good part of my life, I was petrified of failing. This, of course, is an unsustainable and unhealthy way to live. I had to. You can get a glimpse of just one of my many failures in this video here.
Over the years, I have learned firsthand that in order to truly be successful, we need to take risks, fail A LOT, and learn from those experiences. From the moment we are born, I believe we are wired to take risks, fail, and try again. Think of babies learning to walk, falling down, and getting back up again.
In fact, childhood is supposed to be all about trying, sometimes succeeding, often failing, and always learning. But at some point, many of us become much less comfortable with the idea of failure.
We focus on performance and the end result, on acquiring skills and engaging in adult-led activities that are judged, graded, and ranked. We lose sight of the valuable learning that grows out of all the trying — the exploration and the discovery. I wish as a child I had learned to become more comfortable with failure.
It would have saved a lot of heartache. Here are a few tips on how we can help our kids experience failure as a natural part of the path to success:. As a recovering helicopter mom, I know how hard it can be to stop the hovering and let our kids experience occasional discomfort, disappointment, or even heartbreak. For many years, my instinct was to rush in, solve problems, and save my children from the sting of rejection.
I eventually realized my parenting style was preventing my children from becoming independent. No one likes to fail, and that makes perfect sense. On top of that, comebacks are exhausting.
According to successful people and researchers alike, failure is actually good for us for a number of reasons. Failure makes us far more interesting, because we learn more from failure than success. It turns out that learning how to bounce back from failure is an invaluable skill to possess if you want to succeed. Research shows that fear of failure paired with feelings of incompetence can lead to the self-sabotaging kind of procrastination.
Here are just a few ways failure can be good for us. Feeling like a failure is hard, but learning how to cope with failure can only help you succeed in the future. The more you manage to bounce back from failure, the less scary failure will seem.
And if you're not petrified by failure, you'll be more likely to take the kind of risks that could really pay off. On top of that, recovering from setbacks builds confidence.
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