Everyone makes mistakes and children are no exception. What's important is how we learn from them. Yet, children grow up in a society that pressures them to be perfect and intelligent - to achieve the ...

Many adults believe in punishment, whether it’s timeouts, spanking, or loss of privileges. “Kids need consequences for bad behavior,” parents often tell me. Young children do need us to pay attention ...

Most parents step in when their kids seem to be at risk of failure because they care. It’s instinctive to want to protect your kid from anything that might set them back, so parents often do several ...

Confidence isn’t built from constant success but from how we recover when things don’t go as planned. For children, experiencing small mistakes can be powerful training in resilience, self-trust, and ...

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number ...

"Mistakes are proof that you're trying" is an inspirational quote that everyone needs to hear right from childhood. Growing up can be scary as children feel afraid of being wrong or making a mistake ...

This article was first published in the Mindset Works newsletter. We can deepen our own and our students' understanding of mistakes, which are not all created equal, and are not always desirable.