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

11 Sept 2020 · 1 min

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In this brief audio excerpt, LaVonna Roth (Speaker A) and an interview partner (Speaker B) discuss contemporary parenting practices that shield children from experiencing loss, such as the ubiquitous “trophy culture” where even losing teams receive awards. They argue that while these protective mechanisms aim to prevent pain, they inadvertently create a paradox: children face heightened performance pressure to succeed, which correlates with rising rates of depression, suicide, and other mental‑health crises among youth. The conversation emphasizes that allowing children to encounter failure and learn from mistakes is essential for building resilience, and that current over‑protection may be doing more harm than good.

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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, 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, and this is my interpretation, is there's an increasing rate of depression and suicides 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. 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.