Mrs. Shute
I recently finished listening to Paul Tough's book, "How Children Succeed". Thank you Mrs. Jolley for the recommendation! The book explores a variety of issues that impact a child's ability to succeed in all aspects of life and proposes some possible obstacles to them achieving success. One of the points that Tough makes that I found especially true of children of today is that many of our children don't know how to manage failure. This is an exerpt from the book in which Tough is speaking about parenting his young child: "I know that it is just the beginning of the long struggle we will face, as all parents do, between our urge to provide everything for our child, to protect him from all harm, and our knowledge that if we really want him to succeed, we need to first let him fail. Or more precisely, we need to help him learn to manage failure." I found this to be a very valid observation and believe that parents and educators need to help children how to deal with failure. We all know that a big part of navigating life is dealing with disappointment, failure and frustration. It is vital that we help children to learn these skills while they are surrounded by adults who can support them and teach them healthy coping strategies. I would strongly recommend this book to all parents. It took me less than 2 weeks to listen to it on my way to and from work
Mrs. Shute
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Mrs. Jolley
3/11/2013 09:41:10 am
Thanks for the shout out and you are welcome for the recommendation. I am glad that you enjoyed the book. I also found the lessons on failure to be the most interesting part of the book. As a parent, I struggle with this all the time and it was enlightening to read that a little bit of failure now and again is a good thing.
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