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Helping Kids to Overcome the Fear of Failure

Janet Ruth Heller is quoted in Arun Raj’s article “Helping Kids to Overcome the Fear of Failure,” now live at https://momoandme.com/helping-kids-to-overcome-the-fear-of-failure/

This essay was posted on January 23, 2018 on the website Momoandme.

Here is some of my advice:

Janet Ruth Heller remarks: “When a child has trouble with a task, we adults can tell him or her that we also had trouble learning that skill or another similar skill as a child. We can urge the youngster to practice the skill until he or she masters it. We can also tell the young person how we achieved the task ourselves after a lot of practice. And emphasize that perseverance enables all of us to overcome failure.”

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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).