During the coronavirus quarantine, many young people have been missing out on their graduations, proms, and sports events. Although, this is disappointing, and not what anyone wanted, it is not necessarily a bad thing.
Failure is hard for all of us. But failure is more important than success in many ways. If we succeed every time, we attempt something, then we are not equipped when failures do happen.
Most parents have a difficult time watching their children fail. In fact, many parents go to great lengths to prevent their children from failing.
We love our children so much; we want to protect them from harm. We want them to have advantages we wish we had had as children. We want to buy them devices and tools that will make their path to adulthood easier than ours. But are we preparing them for disappointments?