Why It's Important To Let Your Child Make Mistakes
Category: PARENTING
As parents, our responsibility is to keep kids unharmed. That doesn't mean shielding them from all possibility of defeat. It means letting them fail safely. Here's how to help your child take risks -- and make mistakes, inevitably -- safely.
By Dr. Peggy Drexler, Contributor
Author, research psychologist and gender scholar, 2012-09-01