Jacqueline ElliottLeadership Strategist | CEO, Mother, Wife, Legacy-Builder

Let your kids fail! It’s okay! // JACQUELINE ELLIOTT #shorts

18 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Jacqueline Elliott advocating that parents should allow children to fail and learn from mistakes. The speaker contrasts spoiling (buying toys) with fostering resilience, uses an anecdote about taking a child for a Barbie after failure, and emphasizes teaching children self-worth and that "messing up is a part of life." Uploaded April 29, 2024.

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We try to give our kids a life that inhabit and we don't let them make mistakes. Spoiling your children, by the way, is a blessing. I mean, it's a really good thing to spoil your children. But I went through this with Andy. He used to take Kira to go get her a Barbie every time she stepped here and tied. Hey, you can't do that. You have to make her strong. What's going to happen to her when she has her first heartbreak? Is she going to crumble? Is she going to feel powerful? Is she going to want to go and be like, hey, I am valuable. I can achieve it all. Loving herself and not having to please everybody out there, that's the biggest blessing that you have. Show your children that messing up is a part of life.