“Your attitude towards your own mistakes is, according to experts, the best place to begin investigating your ability to help your children weather their own.”
Does this sound familiar? Your child is sitting at the table trying to draw a truck. Suddenly he balls up the page and throws it across the room in a gesture of self-disgust.
“I can’t draw,” he grumbles.
And this from the child whose every scribble you’ve been praising since he first grasped a crayon in a little fist. If your instinct is immediately to start praising and assuring him of his superior artistic ability, read on. You might just find that you offer him the eraser instead, so he can fix
