To try.

To put in effort.

To not give up easily.

In this feel-good era, it is easy to give up as soon as we face discomfort. If it doesn’t feel great, there must be something wrong with it, right?

Little by little we started expecting easy fixes. It is easier to put in a little effort and gain what we want. If it gets hard, we can give up and look for another thing to make us feel good.

In atime when so many things are available to us, we started feeling entitled to success without a lot of effort.

This is why I find it very important that we teach our children to try, put effort in what they are doing, do not give up easily, trust in themselves and enjoy the journey.

There are so many ways for us parents to help our children understand the value of effort. Every day our little ones are trying to do things, and many times they fail, especially when they are attempting to do something for the first time.

Every failure that our child experiences, and every self-doubt they face is an amazing opportunity for us to teach them not to give up easily.

When they fail at something, we need to send them a clear message:

It is completely normal to not succeed as we are trying to do something, and we need to put in effort and practice in order to get better at it and succeed.

Their failure isn’t anything extreme, and it is definitely not proof that they are bad, or unsuccessful. It simply means that they did not manage to do it YET.