Family

Is it healthy for parents to let their children fail?

For

Failure builds strength and independence.

Against

Avoiding failure prevents trauma and keeps confidence intact.

Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.

For

  • Children need to fail. They need to learn to fail and more importantly, learn to push through failure as a chance to learn
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  • allowing them to make their own choices and experiencing the consequences positive and negative of their choices.
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Against

  • Protecting your children is the primary job of a parent
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  • My mom, being a woman, loving me as she did, is not inclined to watch her children fail.
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