"There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life."
Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist.
A foreign concept to the majority of parents who only expressed approval for their kid's achievements, both real and imagined.
No acknowledgement of failures they feared would stifle their children's self-esteem.
Too bad because it is the small, youthful defeats that prepares us for the inevitable more meaningful ones we will experience as adults.
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