failure

Why Reshma Saujani of Girls Who Code wants you to raise kids who are risk takers

"Teach your girls to build high and kick it down," she says on The Motherly Podcast, Sponsored by Prudential.

Dear kids, when I fail…

I hope that my weakness teaches you something. I hope that when you come upon your own brokenness, tiredness, fear and confusion, that you will be okay with it. I pray that your imperfections won't scare you as they have me. I pray that you won't run from them, but that you'll wrestle with them and you will keep showing up, saying sorry, and trying again.

My New Year’s resolution? To own up to my mistakes—especially the ones that affect my kids

It’s the New Year, and I have been doing a lot of thinking. I want to say, with all of my heart and all of my soul, that I am sorry.

I tell my kids it’s okay to fail—so I need to start telling myself, too

Maybe if we actually believed the things we say, the entire structures of our lives, vocations, and relationships would feel less tenuous. We'd believe that even if they got knocked down, we could put them back up just the same as before but with the weaker areas reinforced, stronger in the long run.

I felt like an instant failure at breastfeeding

Just because you have a set of breasts doesn’t mean you will know how to use them to feed your baby. It’s okay to ask for help.

Dear parents, please stop rescuing your children from failure

Failure is how we grow, learn and think outside of ourselves.