The Mike Edwards Podcast
The podcast about parenting and leadership by Mike Edwards. Mike & Julie have 6 kids and fostered 37 more. They also founded and run The Bright Vision Charitable Trust which works with hundreds of families each year, helping them capture a bright vision for their leadership at home.
The Mike Edwards Podcast
#20 - Every Parent Fails: Here's How To Do It Well
Every parents fails. Every parent feels like a failure from time to time. It's why doing a podcast on parenting is so hard — because I fail too. And not many people feel qualified to come on this podcast as a guest — because they feel like a failure.
But the thing is. it's failure that qualifies us for life. It's failure that makes us stronger. It's failure that gives us wisdom it's through failure that we learn. It's through failure that we grow.
And here's the other thing . Our kids fail. Our kids need to fail — to learn to succeed. Our kids need to fail to grow strong.
But there is a massive difference between our kids failing and our kids feeling like a failure.
So today we are going to talk about failure. We are going to talk about how we can encourage failure alongside holding incredibly high expectations for our kids.
