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Alfie Kohn (alfiekohn@sciences.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Feb-2026 22:31:13 JST Alfie Kohn

Mainstream media outlets have been pushing this conservative "Kids have it too easy & need to fail more!" line for years, congratulating themselves on their bold, contrarian stance even though it's long been the conventional wisdom: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/02/parenting-children-failure-immunity/685875/.
My take: https://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/failure/ (to read) or
https://www.alfiekohn.org/podcasts/failure-kz/ (to listen).
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  Let Your Kids Fail
  
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  Early exposure to setbacks can help children confront later disappointments without falling apart.
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  June 23, 2016 The Failure of Failure By Alfie Kohn A few years ago, two researchers in Singapore published a study that compared the effect of traditional and progressive instruction in middle-school math. The traditional…
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