HOME-SCHOOLING: Teens challenged to do hard things

I completely agree with this article. As adults, we need to raise our expectations for our teens, asking them to get jobs, to make dinner, and to be responsible members of our families and of society. We also need to give our children the opportunity to experience failure. It is not healthy to make the team every time you try out-- no matter how good, or bad, you are. Or to pass third grade regardless of whether or not you can read at a third grade level. Real life includes not getting what you want, and not always being chosen. Too many children are growing up thinking the world should shower them with praise for rolling out of bed in the morning and eating Sugar Bombs for breakfast. They are unwilling to take on responsibility, afraid of failure. We cannot become great if we are afraid to fail.