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Why we need to help our kids get friendly with failure?

From The School Leadership Show · Hosted by Mike Doughty

2018-05-13·44:43

Episode summary

In this episode of The School Leadership Show: During this conversation, Jenn and I talk with teacher and author Jessica Lahey about her 2016 book The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So their Children Can Succeed.

Original publisher description

During this conversation, Jenn and I talk with teacher and author Jessica Lahey about her 2016 book The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So their Children Can Succeed. This is a wide-ranging discussion where we talk about so many topics like motivation and executive functioning, the critical time that is middle school,…