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Hi, this is Janet Lansbury. Welcome to Unruffled. Today I'm going to talk about something

I believe most of us, if not all of us us want for our children,

and that is the ability to be patient,

stay on task, complete things that they've started,

not give up,

persist, even when something's challenging,

that they have that confidence,

that they have that stamina to keep going. I guess you would call it grit. How do we help our children

develop that? And as I share about this topic, I'm going to be responding to some specific questions that I received.

They're short one-sentence questions that came via an Instagram reach out that I did

where I asked for questions.

Several were around this topic, so I thought I would talk about it and answer these specifically,

and also answer questions that I've received for years and had myself as a parent

about all kinds of situations where our kids get too frustrated, they want to give up, they seem to fail at something or lose at something and they can't handle it.

How can we give our children the tools that they need to reach their potential and flourish in a world that's not always easy and our goals aren't always easy to achieve, right?

Sometimes our kids can even appear to be early perfectionists

that everything has to be right

or they can't do it,

and they fly off the handle when they're making a mistake or something's not working for them.

So first I'm going to share these individual questions and then I'll talk about some of the steps to keep in mind responses that

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