10/17/2025
Wonderful advice. 🙌🏽
Share Your Own Failures
Being relatable as an instructor is very important. Being relatable as a parent is also very important.
Children often see those whom they respect as being powerful figures in their lives. They fail to see that those powerful figures have failed and have still succeeded. Those powerful figures fear and have feared but have still pressed forward in spite of the fear to achieve their best.
Share those experiences with the students so that they can relate better with you and so that they know that they are not experiencing what they are feeling alone.
Instructors aren’t just role models for success—we’re also examples of resilience, humility, honesty, and persistence.
When we share our victories also share our failures. Allow for the children to know that failures and fear are part of life…just like victories and success.