Responding to mistakes often occurs on autopilot. Okay! Your day is going pretty good. You’re cruising from one thing to…
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series on mistakes
Yay for Mistakes! Part 2, How to Respond
This is part two of a series on ‘responding to mistakes and what do you do?’ Read part 1 here….
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Yay for Mistakes! Part 3, Responding to Our Children’s Mistakes
Many of us are afraid of making mistakes because we associate making mistakes with something bad. Something to be avoided…
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Yay for Mistakes! Part 4 | How to Let Our Children Make Mistakes and Fail
Kids need to make mistakes. And for us parents, this is hard. It was the first overnight birthday party…
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Yay for Mistakes! Part 5 | Quieting a Myth of Mistakes
My son sat next to me, sadness radiating from him. “What’s wrong?’ I ask. “I hate it when people get…
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Yay for Mistakes! Part 6 | Mistaking Our Worth
My red-haired friend from Grad school calls me. The one who is a writing sister and who encouraged me…
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Yay for Mistakes! Part 7 | Mistaking Paradise
Why do we search so hard for and dream about a mistake free day? The perfect day? 24 hours…
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Yay for Mistakes! Part 8 | Some Mistakes are Really Blessings in Disguise
Sometimes I make a small ruckus before my birthday, just to remind everyone it is coming up, and sometimes…
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