Failure is not separate from learning. When a child fails, something essential happens — which we see if we are attentive. In this world of comparison, failure can turn into shame. We live in a ...

Russell Shaw thinks it’s time for parents to let their kids fail more. As the head of Georgetown Day School, he wrote in The Atlantic recently that he was disturbed when a mother came to complain to ...

Ever catch yourself swooping in to fix every little problem for your child? It feels natural to want to protect them, but more parents are starting to do the opposite. They’re stepping back and ...

Failure is usually treated like a pothole we should ideally swerve around, but kids need to hit at least a few of them for the sake of their own personal development. Not on purpose, of course, just ...

A: Robert F. Kennedy, Thomas Edison, and Winston Churchill, three men who changed the history of the twentieth century, had something very important to say about failure. Failure, they say, is part of ...

There’s a growing trend among modern parents that’s subtly unraveling childhood: gentle parenting. Marketed as progressive and emotionally intelligent, it’s built on empathy, negotiation and the ...

Rita Pierson held the test paper in her hands, staring at the bold red –18 scrawled across the top. Another teacher might have seen failure. A computer system would have flagged this student for ...