As your kids are learning to do life, they're going to encounter failure at some point.

And boy, even as I say that, I think of the time that one of my kids was in a play and they just couldn't get through the stage fright and it had to kind of slink off to the side and failure.

That's a coaching moment. I had another child who in school took a class and basically failed the class because they just couldn't keep up with the schedule.

These are wonderful opportunities for you to come alongside your child and help them learn some perseverance.

We're going to talk about that today.

I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta.

He heads up our parenting team here and Danny, I'm guessing that pretty often with the right words and

coaching kids can bounce back pretty strong after a failure but that doesn't

always happen does it it doesn't for certain personalities it's more difficult than others. I've seen a lot of

athletes be able to fail, they're used to failing and they bounce right back from that. And then you see some

personalities where the kid sees it as an absolute failure.

I'm never going to do that again.

I remember when this young man had failed in an academic, it was a test and from then on he just said I'm just I'm just

stupid I'm dumb he had not learned how to fail at academics.

He was a very smart kid, and this really hit him on the side

and he couldn't bounce back.

It took some time for him to realize this was an opportunity

to know what I know and to now try it again.

It was a great growth moment for this young man.

I remember we, Jim and I were at a college, a Christian college and the president noted

that one of the biggest challenges that they had was a

student population that never had failed until they got to this college.

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