REDDAM EARLY LEARNING SCHOOL WOOLLAHRA NEWSLETTER Dee’s Message
25TH FEBRUARY 2022
Dear Parents and Caregivers, None of us likes to fail. After all, when we set out to try something new, we hope to make a success of it and to gain some sort of mastery over it. However, as life soon teaches us, failure is an inescapable part of life – it’s what we do with it that makes all the difference.
movements, in the songs they sing, or in their perfectly imperfect artworks. One only has to think of their first faltering steps towards an outstretched arm, or of feeding themselves for the first time, or of any number of small miracles which take place in their little worlds each day.
Now, while the children are still young, we have an invaluable opportunity to help them shape their attitudes towards failure. They are at a stage in their lives where everything is a new adventure and where there are new things to try each day. Their small bodies are growing rapidly, which means greater strength but also some ungainly attempts at mastering those limbs which sometimes seem to have a life of their own.
As adults, we have a choice of how to approach the trials and errors our children experience on a daily basis, along with the inevitable tears which accompany some of those moments. Our response in those moments will lay the foundation for how our children see ‘mistakes’ in the future and how they set about rectifying them and working on constant refinements.
One person has said “Fail often so you can succeed sooner.” This is perfectly encapsulated in the lives of the little people in the ELS, who will spend ages trying to get one task right, whether in their physical
The Urstrong organisation, which encourages healthy and happy relationships, makes the point that “Time and time again, the little people in our lives say and do the wrong thing. That’s because they’re still learning and they’re human. Just like us adults,
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