Children Who Are Allowed to Fail Early Do Better Later. Here Is the Research Parents Need to Read.
Children today fail less often than they did forty years ago. By multiple measures of psychological wellbeing, they are not doing better. An eight-year study found that overcontrolled toddlers had measurably less self-regulation by age five. The skills adversity builds do not develop in the absence of adversity. Lila Sjöberg explains what the research actually says.
