Perhaps you’ve heard about FOMO (the fear of missing out), which can be described as an excitatory impulse that drives a person’s behavior to attain experiences they fear they are missing out on (or ...

Everyone makes mistakes and children are no exception. What's important is how we learn from them. Yet, children grow up in a society that pressures them to be perfect and intelligent - to achieve the ...

Making mistakes has a way of shaking our confidence and making us question ourselves. When we stumble, negative thoughts flood in telling us we should quit or that we're simply not good enough. But ...

This article was first published in the Mindset Works newsletter. We can deepen our own and our students' understanding of mistakes, which are not all created equal, and are not always desirable.

It's easy to want to be the perfect parent when you have kids, but making mistakes as a parent is pretty natural. In fact, it's part of the equation for raising successful kids, developmental ...

Even a dyed-in-the-wool perfectionist will tell you that we all make mistakes. Some are bigger than others, though, and if we don’t learn from them, we’re destined to make them again and again. This ...