Diane GardnerFounder, Adept Business Solutions · Profit First Professional

#MUIYB Audio Short, LaVonna Roth-The Mindset To Achieve

11 Sept 2020 · 1 min

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In this brief interview segment, the speakers discuss contemporary parenting practices that aim to protect children from experiencing loss, such as the ubiquitous “everyone gets a trophy” approach. They argue that shielding kids from failure eliminates essential opportunities to develop resilience. The conversation links this overprotective environment to rising rates of depression, suicide, and other negative mental‑health outcomes among youth, suggesting that the lack of manageable stress and the pressure to perform perfectly are harmful. The speakers conclude that experiencing and learning from mistakes is crucial for building emotional strength.

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there's all these parental mechanisms set up so that kids don't feel the pain of loss or losing. Like, you know, everyone gets the trophy, uh, including the losing team. On the flip side, there's so much pressure on kids that there is a— at least according to this book, at least in this is my interpretation— is there's an increasing rate of depression and, uh, and suicides and, and other horrible consequences of this lack of stress and this disproportionate stress in this category of performance. Have you— what's your sense around that?
I believe wholeheartedly that we have done some harm. Uh, you know, it's because what happens is when you make a mistake and you mess up, right, or you lose, for example, you actually have to figure out some resiliency there. So you're