Reviews for Gift of Failure
"When Success Leads to Failure," The Atlantic
"The Gift of Failure," New York Times
"If Your Kid Left His Term Paper At Home, Don't Bring It To Him" New York Magazine
"Books That Changed My Mind This Year," Fortune
"New Book Suggests Parents Learn to Let Kids Fail," USA Today
"7 Rules for Raising Self-Reliant Children," Forbes
"Before You Let Your Child Fail, Read This," Huffington Post
"How Schools Are Handling an Overparenting Crisis," NPR
"Why Failure Hits Girls So Hard," Time
"The Value of a Mess," Slate
"4 Reasons Why Every Educator Should Read 'The Gift of Failure,'" Inside Higher Ed
"Why We Should Let Our Children Fail," The Guardian (UK)
"Shelly's Bookworms: The Gift of Failure," WFAA Dallas
"Why I Don't Want My Kids to be Lazy Like Me," Yahoo Parenting
"Jessica Lahey," Celia Walden for The Telegraph (UK)
"How to To Give Your Child The Gift of Failure," Huffington Post
"The Gift of Failure," Doug Fabrizio, Radio West
"In the Author's Voice: The Gift of Failure," WISU / NPR
"The Gift of Failure," The Good Life Project
"Giving Our Children the Gift of Failure," ScaryMommy
"Lyme Resident's Book Challenges Parents and Kids on Failure," Valley News
"The Gift of Failure," The Jewish Press
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The ugly and wonderful truth about middle school,’ [Lahey] says, is that ‘failure is not an if proposition, it’s a matter of when.’ Or it used to be. Now that parents shelter their children every step of the way, we have ‘failure deprived’ college students (as administrators at Stanford and Harvard call them) and entitled, anxious 20-somethings who can’t function in a world that’s sometimes cold or cruel or indifferent. So how can teachers snatch back their critical role and give children the necessary space to fail? They could start by making parents read Lahey.