The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

by Jessica Lahey

Book Overview

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In the tradition of Paul Tough's How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel's The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life's inevitable problems so that they can grow up to be successful, resilient, and self-reliant adults.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062299255
• ISBN13: 9780062299253
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"