No one wants their child to fail. You love seeing a perfect spelling or math grade at the end of the day. This article demonstrates that the best way to achieve that is to have kids make mistakes in their learning. This allows for them to have greater recall and understand the steps to solving problems. The worst thing you can do, possibly, is to "google" everything!

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Henry Cloud, a Christian psychologist makes the same point. Mistakes are chances to learn, not shame.