Mistakes or The Only Way? with Michelle Icard

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Based on her invaluable playbook for anxious parents everywhere, Michelle Icard thinks with Kelly about mistakes and making sure that rebellions don’t become the headline of our kids’ childhoods, but rather a jumping off point. This is a conversation to save us all from the overreactions and regrets that stymie growth. Michelle’s book is 8 Setbacks That Can Make a Child A Success, available August 22, 2023. Warning: this episode includes a brief discussion of suicide. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering about failure,
0:10.5	hours, and also our children's. My thought partner is Michelle Aikard. She has a background
0:16.5	in education and has worked with parents and children and teachers for more than 20 years.
0:20.8	Her new book, which I loved, is called Eight Setbacks that can make a child a success.
0:26.8	What to do and what to say to turn failures into character building moments. She's not the first
0:32.6	person on Kelly Corrigan Wonders to remind us that failures are often the beginning of a great
0:40.8	growth spurt. But the specificity of her examples is what really won me over. She talked about a few
0:47.0	things I have never heard anyone address. So join us for a conversation about failure
0:52.4	and why it's not nearly as catastrophic as we often make it out to be. We'll be right back with
0:57.6	Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan and my guest
1:15.5	today is author and counselor Michelle Aikard. She has a degree in education. She's worked with
1:20.9	parents, children and teachers for 20 years creating curriculum and programs that help them better
1:26.2	navigate their lives. She's a writer for the Today Show Parenting Team NBC News Learn CNN Science
1:33.0	and Wellness and the Washington Post. She's also the author of three books, including the newest one,
1:39.2	Eight Setbacks that can make a child a success. What to do and what to say to turn failures in quotes
1:46.4	to character building moments. This is an invaluable playbook for anxious parents everywhere.
1:52.3	Ensuring that a child's mistakes or rebellions don't become the headline of their childhood,
1:57.4	but instead a launch pad for a better future.
2:04.6	You've written a book about failure. There are eight different kinds that you sort of draw out
2:09.2	here, kindly not taking us into the hundreds that you might have. And I only want to talk about
2:16.4	three partially because I don't want to give away the whole book, but partially because there's
2:19.6	only so much time in this podcast. But before we get there, I want to talk about sort of overall
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