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Zen Parenting Radio

The Gift Of Failure- Podcast #407

Zen Parenting Radio

Todd and Cathy Adams

Education, Philosophy, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8636 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Todd and Cathy discuss Jessica Lahey’s The Gift of Failure, and discuss why allowing our kids to make mistakes will help them succeed. They also discuss the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, why rewards and punishment don’t work, and why praising our kids for effort rather than outcome will lead to greater success and a healthier sense of self. They play a clip of a Hillary Clinton interview on the Dear Sugar podcast, a commercial about failure from Michael Jordan, and discuss Carol Dweck’s book Mindset.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Do do do do do do there we go. My name's Todd. This is Kathy. Welcome back to Zen Parenting Radio.

0:09.5

This is podcast number 407, I think. Does that sound about right to you, sweetie? Sure. Why listen to Zen Parenting Radio?

0:17.0

Because you'll feel outstanding and who does want to feel outstanding and always remember our

0:21.1

motto that the best predictor of a child's will being is a parent's self-understanding. On today's

0:27.0

show, we're going to be discussing a book in a friend that I met last week. Her name is Jessica

0:33.2

Leahy and she wrote a book called The Gift of Failure.

0:43.3

And the subtitle is how the best parents learn to let go so their children can succeed.

0:46.2

So that's the one thing.

0:48.7

And I have a few quick takes.

0:50.5

Can't forget about a quick take, sweetie.

0:53.8

Okay, before you do the quick takes, just a few things to share with you guys. Number one, the last day for early bird prices for our conference on March 2nd and 3rd is December 1st. Okay. So if you were going to get your early bird ticket, do it right away. We also, if for those of you who were in our civility and compassion

1:12.6

class um earlier this week um it was wonderful thank you for being with us um and if you appreciated

1:19.8

that or enjoyed that that's kind of what team zen is that's what we do every you know week or two

1:24.2

on team zen as we do a show like that. People ask questions,

1:27.7

et cetera.

1:28.3

So you can always join Team Zen.

1:29.8

Go to Zen Parenting Radio.com.

1:31.7

And then last in January, this kind of connects to what you're talking about here, Todd.

1:37.0

We are doing a series at the library in Elmhurst about success.

1:43.0

And so, you know, kind of connected to failure. Yeah. So anyway, those are our

1:47.4

upcoming events. So two quick things. Oh, is you talked about the conference. Yes. And I want to play a

1:54.1

clip from another podcast that one of our keynotes hosts called Dear Sugar. Oh. And she interviewed, so what is Dear Sugar, sweetie? hosts called Dear Sugar.

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