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[quote=Anonymous]These are very important lessons for kids—everyone is different, you may have struggles different than others, but they’ll struggle with something else....maybe not now but in the future. Also—kids get cut from sports all the time...a good lesson on practicing more (talk to him about Michael Jordan! He tried out for varsity basketball in HS and didn’t make it—then he worked hard to get on the team). The best thing we can do for our kids when they have disappointments is to hug them, hear them out when they’re sad, don’t put down their feelings, but talk to them about how to bounce back, how to be resilient, how they’re not alone even if it seems like they are. Tell them stories of when things didn’t go well for you at their age and look at you now! Model patience and resilience for them. We can’t shield them from disappointment or when life is unfair, but we can set them up to handle it well. [/quote]
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