Stop Rescuing Your Kids From Disappointment | #169

When your child experiences failure, disappointment, or rejection, what's your first instinct?

Do you step in and fix it? Make excuses? Try to make the pain disappear?

Or do you help them learn how to overcome it?

In Episode 169 of High Performance Parenting, Greg and Jacquie Francis continue their conversation about one of the biggest lies parents believe: that our children's happiness should always come first.

This week, they share two real-life parenting experiences.

First, they revisit their daughter Bella's costly driving mistake and explain how they helped her find a solution while still allowing her to take financial responsibility.

Then they share what happened when their 14-year-old son Druce tried out for his high school golf team—and didn't make it.

Druce was naturally talented. He loved golf. But when the pressure of competitive tryouts arrived, his performance fell apart.

As parents, Greg and Jacquie watched their normally outgoing son become quiet and deeply disappointed.

They faced a difficult choice: protect him from the pain, make excuses for what happened, or allow the experience to teach him something he couldn't learn simply by being told.

And what Druce did next surprised them.

In this episode, you'll discover: