MISTAKES

"If you want to increase you success rate, double your failure rate." - Thomas Watson

Parents are usually too concerned about their children's mistakes. Making mistakes is an important part of learning. Too much attention paid to mistakes will undermine your child's confidence and thwart their initiative. We must learn to correct our children's mistakes without over emphasizing these mistakes in the process. Oftentimes mistakes are creative new ways of doing things.

Your right to be wrong

"Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life." - David M. Burns

Dr. Burns understands the importance of freedom from judgment. Too much concern over avoiding mistakes sucks the life from us and turns our souring creative impulses into a pile of dead leaves.