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Zen Parenting Radio- Why failure is a good thing

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?

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Thank you for listening!!!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 signficant failures, too.

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