Your children don’t only need their teachers in their education, but also you as their parents to teach them what their teachers don’t teach.
Teaching your kids about financial responsibility means setting a budget and deciding what to do when children run afoul of their own guidelines.
Lots of smart people have managed to think logically without formal instruction in logic. Moreover, studies show that kids become better learners when they are forced to explain how they solve problems.
Tough returns to the importance of failure as a key character-building tool again and again. If we do not let our children fail – from the bumps and knocks of the first few years to losing childhood games and sports – they will not develop strong enough “characters” to survive later on in life.
One of the most important ways to be successful is to find something you’re passionate about, and do that for a living. Your child won’t know the answer at a young age, but you should show her how to find her passion and how to pursue it, and why that’s important.