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E-mailMy son came home dejected, having lost a match, which he was certain he would win. No amount of cajoling helped. Then I asked him if he would like to go out for pizza, “let’s celeberate”. He looked at me as if I had gone crazy. “Where is it written that we can’t celeberate our failures?” I asked, and suddenly I could see him sense some logic in my madness.
But, isn’t that true for all of us? Why can’t we celeberate a failure like we do our successes. Afterall, isn’t failure an experience just like success. Agreed it is a bitter pill to swallow but isn’t bitterness a taste? Without which we would not appreciate sweetness.
Last few days the newspapers have been filled with reports of exceptionally bright students committing suicide, and it has shaken me to the core. Is it so important to succeed that even a little amount of failure drives our children to take such drastic steps? What cost this success if even the thought of failure is anathema? We all go through disappointments in life we move on we grow, it’s time we taught our children this survival trick.
I hope today I instilled some of my madness in my son. Hope he will learn to celeberate his failures in the same vein as his successes. So, lets all cheer for all our failures, which have made us what we are today.
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Celebrating failure if the kid has given his best is great but if that is done when he’s put in a half-hearted effort might send out the wrong signals!
I think its essential that we tell not only our kids but also our friends and family that we love them for who they are and not for the successes they have had in life!
I do feel that the children should feel loved for what they are and not because of what they achieve.