Kids often hear, “Mistakes are part of learning.” But if they have perfectionist tendencies, they don’t believe it. Mistakes feel intolerable and humiliating to them. They dissolve into tears over a ...

Being able to tolerate winning and losing is an essential social skill for children. Children under five don’t really understand rules, so it doesn’t make sense to focus on competition with them, but ...

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to change and innovation is not lack of ideas, resources, or time, but simply the fear of failure. Recognizing this, many leaders have asked me: how can we learn to accept ...

There's a phrase that I hear parents say all the time: "I just want my kids to be happy." But as a child psychologist and a mother of three kids, I've seen how optimizing for happiness, instead of ...