A common adage about having kids is that you WILL make mistakes. One writer, however, believes that a key part of parenting is allowing our children to fail.
Here’s what Cyndi Sarnoff-Ross writes for
DailyStrength.org:
Sometimes we remind our children of things because it is the quicker alternative to waiting until they get around to it or to returning somewhere to recover a lost item, but that is our own agenda getting in the way. There needs to be natural consequences to our children’s behavior. This is how they learn and this is how they grow.
“Natural consequences” is a soft way of saying that kids need to make their own mistakes. It’s not always easy to tell when parents should step in and when they should let their children get into a little trouble, but childhood is the first place we learn that failure is the secret to success.
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