Grooming Our Kids for Failure
Back in the dark ages when I was at school my teachers employed this wacky notion of telling us whether or not our school work was great, good, bad or otherwise.
They even gave us grades.
And when my report cards were bad my folks got mad at me… not the teacher.
Crazy, I know.
Surprisingly I didn’t die from this… or suffer any irreparable damage.
Sometimes kids even failed a subject.
Interestingly, none of them died either (as a result of that failure).
Some of them even went away, studied, worked harder, passed the next semester, developed some new skills and learned a lot from the experience!
Is it just me, or does is dawn on anybody else that the rampant over-protection of our kids (and not just in a school setting) doesn’t really help them at all?
It’s not always an advantage but often, a significant disadvantage?
I’m not a kid-ologist (made that up) but I do own a kid’s gym and do observe lots of parents in action and it seems to me that some parents are so paranoid and over-protective that the very thing they don’t want… they end up creating; kids who can’t cope, can’t adapt and don’t fit in.
The world is a messy, lumpy, bumpy, unfair, nasty, unpredictable place.
Perhaps we should let our kids experience a little pain, discomfort, adversity… life.
Source: http://craigharper.com.au
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