Do you Encourage Failure? And Should You?

A Dad's Path

Will Braunstein

Parenting, Kids & Family

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Will looks at teaching your kids how to fail, to teach them how to succeed.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to a Dad's Path Podcast, we're real dads solving everyday problems.
0:06.6	Each week we tackle issues that dads everywhere face and deliver actions you can take right
0:10.4	away.
0:11.4	Subscribe so you don't miss an episode and go to a dadspath.com to get our free newsletter
0:16.3	exclusively for dads.
0:18.1	Our goal is to help you make fatherhood count, Dad Off.
0:33.0	What happens when your child tries something but fails?
0:36.8	Whether it's trying to walk, ride a bike, read, swim, how do you encourage your children to
0:42.4	keep trying?
0:43.4	Well, there are two approaches.
0:45.3	The approach from the dad in Taladagan nights, he yells at his son Ricky Bobby, the first
0:50.2	your last, not only doesn't really make sense, you can be second place, third, etc.
0:56.6	It's also almost certainly not helpful.
0:58.8	The dad is using pressure to drive home the point you better not fail.
1:02.7	How do you think that pressure translates onto a young mind?
1:05.5	Not so effective.
1:06.6	Take another approach from Sarah Blakely, the founder of Spanx.
1:10.2	Blakely was designated the youngest self-made female billionaire by Forbes in 2012, not
1:15.5	too bad.
1:16.5	Her dad would ask Sarah a question around the dinner table, not about success, but failure.
1:21.6	Her father would ask Sarah what she failed at today, and he would encourage hearing more
1:25.8	about the failures because only through failure can come success.
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