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. In most cases, parents have a harder time seeing their children fail than children have failing. The drive in parents today, to protect their children and see their children successful comes with a price. Children who are not allowed to fail, have a hard time coping when failure does come their way.
The reality is parents are not preventing their children from failing, they are only sweeping it farther down the road. Failures happen in all our lives at some time or other.