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Parents' Corner
Shannon Anderson

Making Mistakes Part I

Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2012, at 11:03 AM
In this post, I'd like to discuss strategies for parents to use when their children make mistakes. One of the many jobs parents have is to help their children learn from their mistakes and positively handle disappointments. Children need to learn that mistakes are not bad. Of course, parents must differentiate between mistakes that can be used as learning opportunities and those that could be harmful or dangerous for the child in some way...
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