The blessing of failure: How the best parents learn to ignore so that their children can succeed
Author: Jessica Lahia
Language: Arabic
Publication date: 2018
Book format: Paperback
Publisher: Jarir Bookstore
Number of pages: 296
Book category: Self-development
Description:
The modern parenting style is characterized by an unprecedented level of overprotection. Parents now rush to the school to deliver their children's homework that they forgot at home, argue with teachers about poor grades that cause their children frustration, control their children's friendships, and also intervene in their children's coaches' decisions on the playground.
As teacher, journalist, and mother Jessica Lahia explains, although these parents consider themselves highly responsive to their children's welfare and safety, they do not give them the opportunity to experience failure or to learn how to solve their problems on their own.
Jessica has observed, everywhere she visits, a clear and intense fear of failure among her students and her own children alike. This fear undermines children's reliance on themselves, their competence, their motivation, and their relationships with adults in their lives.
Out of her desire to offer advice on dealing with homework, school reports, social activities, and sports, Lahia has also developed a plan to help parents learn to step back and accept their children's failure as they accept their success.
