Parents often feel pressure to appear strong, competent, and always in control. Yet hiding every mistake or pretending to be perfect can do more harm than good. Research in developmental psychology ...

In their quest to protect their kids, many parents make the mistake of refusing to let their children take any risks. This ...

My son was in a baseball slump, but I didn't want to say things just to make him feel better. I decided to emphasize effort over results and told him he needed to practice more. I think failure is a ...

A while back, the Sunday New York Times published an article describing how college students need to be taught that it’s okay to fail occasionally. It described how, at that time, Smith, a prestigious ...

A satirical quiz about parenting failure-styles appeared in “The New Yorker” the other day. It made me laugh out loud, but how impertinent, alluding to the fact that parents aren’t perfect. What about ...

This nightly ritual was invaluable in teaching Blakely to view failure as a tool for discovery -- a way of figuring out new skills that would make her more competent, more insightful and more powerful ...

For the “layperson” out there, Real-World Workshop is the procedure for facilitating independent work for students in school ...

Trapping kids in schools where almost no learning occurs is an atrocious moral failing — one that last week President Trump took a step toward correcting: He declared that every child deserves a good ...