Failure is an Option
We often counsel our children and even ourselves with this saying, “Failure is not an option”. However, I would like to for all of us as parents and as human beings to reconsider this way of thinking. In fact, I think we are providing a disservice to our teens by not only incorporating the fear of failure into their mentality but often actively protecting them from failing. Many of us are familiar with the story of how penicillin was invented through the failure to clean up dirty dishes in a workstation before a vacation. However, because Alexander Fleming was observant he [...]