Why Failure is a Good Thing

Zen Parenting Radio

Todd and Cathy Adams

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

4.8 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2013

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Failure is important right? We learn a lot from failure, right? Then why do we try to protect our children from ever failing? We have a discussion between the relationship between failure, confidence, narcissism, self worth, etc. The people who have made the largest impact on our world had significant failures, too. We also discuss families who send their kids to an “athletic boarding school” Is this an effort to give their child the best opportunity to succeed, or is it deeper than that? Don’t forget to listen in to our bi-monthly podcast called- “Conversations with People We Love” This week we speak with Chicago’s own singer/songwriter Gerry O’Keefe about the delicate balance between following your passion and responsibilities of work/family. We would love to hear any comments from the show by sending us an email @ [email protected] You can be sure to hear more by liking our facebook page @ https://www.facebook.com/ZenParenting You can subscribe to Cathy’s blog by going to http://www.chicagonow.com/self-aware-parent/ Thank you for listening!!!

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0:00.0	Here we go, Zen Parenting Radio. This is Todd Adams.
0:06.5	Is this Kathy Adams? Are you checking your phone?
0:08.3	No, I just was seeing what time it was. You said, we got to move. So I wanted to know what time was.
0:12.3	I like to move it, move it. I like to move it, move it. I know you too.
0:16.0	So Zen Parenting Radio, episode number 147. It's a discussion between a spiritual and emotional mom.
0:20.9	That's you, sweetie.
0:22.0	It is.
0:23.1	Inological and practical dad, that's me.
0:24.5	We have three daughters, ages 6, 8, and 10.
0:26.1	Our goal is to give you the resources to become a better parent, but more importantly to become a better you.
0:30.3	And I'm going to read my quote, which I love, which needs repeating every week until I decide not.
0:35.0	Okay. The best predictor of a child's well-being is a parent's self-understanding.
0:39.6	Who should we credit that to?
0:41.0	Do you know?
0:41.7	Me.
0:42.7	Well, it's, I used that quote in my presentation I did last week because it really kind of
0:47.7	sums up everything that we're trying to do.
0:51.8	We're going to talk about an article that I read called giving trophy.
0:56.8	I don't know what it was called.
0:57.6	Basically it was about how this writer was not a big fan of everybody getting a trophy.
1:03.5	Okay.
1:04.0	And so we're going to kind of let that lead in to a discussion of trophies and awards and failure and...
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