6 Tips on How to Help Your Children Deal With Failure
4. Giving them examples of famous failures
Helping your kids to deal with failure can be made easier by showing them examples of famous failures who eventually went on to become big successes. Tell them about examples of Steve Jobs, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein and other such famous personalities who faced a lot of failures in the earlier part of their lives. Narrate the stories of how they overcame their troubles to achieve success. This will inspire your children to learn how to deal with failure.
5. Loving your children nevertheless
One of the most important things that you can do as a parent in helping your children cope with failure is to love them no matter how badly they have failed. Children should never feel that their parents don’t love them because they failed, as this can have a damaging emotional impact which may lead to psychological troubles. Give them all your love and support, more so when they have failed.
6. Setting an ideal example
Always remember that your children are constantly watching and emulating you. If they see that you have succumbed to failure in your professional or personal sphere, they will react the same way to failure too. Set the correct example by dealing with failure maturely with a smile on your face. Let your kids see that some amount of encouragement, patience and resilience can go a long way in dealing with failure so that they replicate such behavior in their own lives too.
