It's back to school and lots of lessons are already being learned - but one that is missing quite often these days is the value of learning from our mistakes... our failures. Without the failures how can are children build their self-esteem and learn greater things for their future?

Best-selling author of The Secret of Successful Failing, a mom and an advocate of learning from our failures, Gina Mollicone-Long believes that when it comes to self-esteem, our schools are getting a failing grade. At a time when even the word “failing” has become taboo and where one school in California banned a game of tag (because it “created a self-esteem issue” since someone had to be “it” and that someone was a “victim,”) it seems to Mollicone-Long and concerned parents everywhere that school systems’ efforts of increasing student’s self-esteem has turned sickly.

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www.ginamolliconelong.com