304. The Parent’s Guide to Letting Go: Teaching Your Kids to Embrace The Gift of Failure with Jessica Lahey
Be Well by Kelly Leveque
Kelly Leveque
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we meet Jessica Lahey, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Gift of Failure: How The Best Parents Learn To Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. Informed by over two decades of teaching experience and a robust writing career, Jessica shares her relatable insights on education and parenting.
I absolutely devoured this book and I’m thrilled to dive into it with Jessica. We break down a few of its most illuminating parenting insights, like the importance of allowing children to experience failure and how it contributes to their growth and resilience. Jessica explains why failure shouldn't be seen as a dirty word and reveals how it can be a powerful learning tool, instead.
This episode is packed with valuable insights that will help you raise more independent, confident, and capable children. I’m so thankful for the time Jessica spent with us today. If you are a parent, I highly recommend The Gift of Failure.
We also cover:
(00:01:02) Why Kids Avoid Challenges & Problem Solving
(00:17:36) What Does & Does NOT Work to Encourage Kids at School
(00:29:49) Boosting Motivation & Supporting Self-Efficacy Through Modeling
(00:45:40) Countering The Daunted College Prep Stress
(00:57:24) Parenting for Independence: Best Practices
Resources:
• Click here for full show notes
• Website: jessicalahey.com
• Read: The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey
• Instagram: @teacherlahey
• Linkedin: Jessica Lahey
• YouTube: Jessica Lahey
• Podcast: #AmWriting
• GoodReads: Jessica Lahey
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In today's episode, I'm welcoming Jessica Leahy, author of the New York Times Best Seller, |
| 0:15.0 | The Gift of Failure. How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go so their children can succeed. |
| 0:20.0 | With over two decades of teaching experience and a robust writing career |
| 0:24.1 | Jessica shares her insights on education and parenting. I absolutely devoured |
| 0:29.9 | this book. I learned about why failure is a dirty word, how we can parent for independence, why it's |
| 0:36.5 | important that we do less, and we give our children more, like more |
| 0:43.0 | opportunity to be independent with their friends and on the sports field. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm so excited to ask her all of the questions that have been brewing |
| 0:51.0 | inside of me since I read this book. |
| 0:53.0 | I hope you learn a little something on today's episode, |
| 0:55.5 | and if you are a parent, I highly recommend the gift of failure. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm so excited for today's new. I have taped three, this is my third interview today and I feel like someone just injected me with all the endorphins because Jessica Leahy is on the podcast today. |
| 1:15.6 | She wrote The Gift of Failure and I devoured this book. I loved every page. I was like do I ear this, do I highlight this, I'm |
| 1:26.4 | screen-shotting it, sending it to Chris, poor guys, like he thinks I'm all, she's got |
| 1:30.5 | to think I'm a horrible parent. |
| 1:31.9 | Anyways, everything you wrote in the book is magic. |
| 1:34.8 | I can't recommend it enough if I were to pick like three books, |
| 1:38.0 | parenting books for people to read. |
| 1:39.6 | It's up there for me. |
| 1:40.6 | Like, it is your everything guide to stop over parenting to get |
| 1:47.9 | your kids used to failure to enjoy their sports instead of trying to be the coach or the ref to let them be independent. |
| 1:56.9 | I mean it's just I have full body chills I'm so excited you're here. |
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