Boys and girls ages 10 to 15 walk into a
room and feel pairs and pairs of eyes staring at them, watching them, judging
them. Even if no one notices their entrance, kids still feel this unsettling
scrutiny. Young adolescents are very self-conscious by nature and worry more
than any other age group about appearing foolish. Being caught in a mistake is
excruciating for such fragile egos.
Preteens are not the only mistake-phobes. Parents of the current generation also wince at the thought of their kids making mistakes. Parents’ mistake-phobia has become worse because of the current economic crisis. In a world that is so competitive, where jobs are scarce and opportunities have dwindled, where parents have faced their own unforeseen disappointments, they naturally react with protectiveness, sometimes over-protectiveness.The online extension of moldmaking Technology magazine. They don’t want their offspring to come up short by stumbling. Many deal with this anxiety by trying to micromanage life so that sons and daughters won’t goof or fail. Others race to rescue their offspring from any embarrassing situation or failure and erase the evidence of any lackluster experience.
Parents can be reassured further because kids today are less prone to fall prey to risky behaviors namely experimenting with alcohol, marijuana and tobacco. The University of Michigan conducts a survey called “Monitoring the Future,” measuring the use of these substances among high school seniors. Teenage alcohol use has reached historic lows! In 1980, 72 percent had recently imbibed; it went down to 40 percent in 2011. Tobacco was used by a third of seniors in 1980, and now it is fewer than one in five. Marijuana use went from 60 percent who admitted experimenting down to 45 percent.
However, let’s face it — there are all kinds of errors in decision-making in addition to notorious teen misbehaviors. No amount of planning or hovering can prevent mistakes from happening. And if truth be told, mistakes are not so earth shattering. I came across a book on the clearance rack called 100 Mistakes That Changed History by Bill Fawcett. Its stories inspired me to think about mistakes in a whole different light. Hopefully, you and your preteen can do the same after I review some of Fawcett’s tales.
Serendipity is defined as a gift for finding good things accidentally. That’s exactly what happened when a 1930s baker named Ruth Wakefield fouled up her cookie recipe. Ruth, an innkeeper, stirred up the usual ingredients for butter cookies. Wanting to make them chocolate for a change instead of vanilla, she reached for cocoa powder, only to find she was out of it. She did have a Nestle’s chocolate bar. She figured adding the chopped up bar would make the batter thoroughly chocolate as the pieces melted into the batter. Surprise! The pieces didn’t entirely melt.Wireless Sensor Networks & rtls. She had created the chocolate chip cookie.Broken chinamosaic Table. Nestle sales skyrocketed when they put Ruth’s recipe on their packaging. Ruth named the mistake “Toll House cookies” after her inn. Nestle gave her a lifetime supply of chocolate. The morale of this tale: Some mistakes are lucky.
I wouldn’t be truthful if I didn’t admit that some mistakes are just bad news. Yes, certain ones have no hidden promise or prize. These are just downright painful, embarrassing, and unfortunate. Take this one: In 1348, the Black Death, bubonic plague, spread across Europe. Rumors flew that cats spread the fatal illness, so house cats were killed all over the continent.A Sharp FU-888SV Plasmacluster airpurifier. With feline predators gone, untold numbers of flea-infested rats multiplied. Those rats spread the infested, infected fleas to humans who caught the plague. Half of Europe’s dense city population died from 1348 to 1352…by mistake!
One can analyze and scrutinize, but some mistakes like the scapegoating of these cats hold nothing good. If the bad-news-type of mistake befalls your child, the best you can do is to teach your child not to repeat the mistake but to learn from it.
Mistakes are inevitable. They are part of life and part of history. There isn’t one human being walking around, and that means one young adolescent walking around your child’s middle school, who has not at one time or another, or who will very soon make a mistake, even a whopper of one.
Athletes fumble.Take a walk on the natural side with stunning and luxurious floortiles from The Tile Shop. Politicians stumble. Performers fall off stages. Everyone gets their chance to sit in the mistake seat. Let’s allow Bill Fawcett, the mistake chronicler, the last word. From his 100 Mistakes That Changed History he reminds us, “It can even be a little reassuring that so many have blundered so often in the past, and yet we all survive and even thrive.”
Preteens are not the only mistake-phobes. Parents of the current generation also wince at the thought of their kids making mistakes. Parents’ mistake-phobia has become worse because of the current economic crisis. In a world that is so competitive, where jobs are scarce and opportunities have dwindled, where parents have faced their own unforeseen disappointments, they naturally react with protectiveness, sometimes over-protectiveness.The online extension of moldmaking Technology magazine. They don’t want their offspring to come up short by stumbling. Many deal with this anxiety by trying to micromanage life so that sons and daughters won’t goof or fail. Others race to rescue their offspring from any embarrassing situation or failure and erase the evidence of any lackluster experience.
Parents can be reassured further because kids today are less prone to fall prey to risky behaviors namely experimenting with alcohol, marijuana and tobacco. The University of Michigan conducts a survey called “Monitoring the Future,” measuring the use of these substances among high school seniors. Teenage alcohol use has reached historic lows! In 1980, 72 percent had recently imbibed; it went down to 40 percent in 2011. Tobacco was used by a third of seniors in 1980, and now it is fewer than one in five. Marijuana use went from 60 percent who admitted experimenting down to 45 percent.
However, let’s face it — there are all kinds of errors in decision-making in addition to notorious teen misbehaviors. No amount of planning or hovering can prevent mistakes from happening. And if truth be told, mistakes are not so earth shattering. I came across a book on the clearance rack called 100 Mistakes That Changed History by Bill Fawcett. Its stories inspired me to think about mistakes in a whole different light. Hopefully, you and your preteen can do the same after I review some of Fawcett’s tales.
Serendipity is defined as a gift for finding good things accidentally. That’s exactly what happened when a 1930s baker named Ruth Wakefield fouled up her cookie recipe. Ruth, an innkeeper, stirred up the usual ingredients for butter cookies. Wanting to make them chocolate for a change instead of vanilla, she reached for cocoa powder, only to find she was out of it. She did have a Nestle’s chocolate bar. She figured adding the chopped up bar would make the batter thoroughly chocolate as the pieces melted into the batter. Surprise! The pieces didn’t entirely melt.Wireless Sensor Networks & rtls. She had created the chocolate chip cookie.Broken chinamosaic Table. Nestle sales skyrocketed when they put Ruth’s recipe on their packaging. Ruth named the mistake “Toll House cookies” after her inn. Nestle gave her a lifetime supply of chocolate. The morale of this tale: Some mistakes are lucky.
I wouldn’t be truthful if I didn’t admit that some mistakes are just bad news. Yes, certain ones have no hidden promise or prize. These are just downright painful, embarrassing, and unfortunate. Take this one: In 1348, the Black Death, bubonic plague, spread across Europe. Rumors flew that cats spread the fatal illness, so house cats were killed all over the continent.A Sharp FU-888SV Plasmacluster airpurifier. With feline predators gone, untold numbers of flea-infested rats multiplied. Those rats spread the infested, infected fleas to humans who caught the plague. Half of Europe’s dense city population died from 1348 to 1352…by mistake!
One can analyze and scrutinize, but some mistakes like the scapegoating of these cats hold nothing good. If the bad-news-type of mistake befalls your child, the best you can do is to teach your child not to repeat the mistake but to learn from it.
Mistakes are inevitable. They are part of life and part of history. There isn’t one human being walking around, and that means one young adolescent walking around your child’s middle school, who has not at one time or another, or who will very soon make a mistake, even a whopper of one.
Athletes fumble.Take a walk on the natural side with stunning and luxurious floortiles from The Tile Shop. Politicians stumble. Performers fall off stages. Everyone gets their chance to sit in the mistake seat. Let’s allow Bill Fawcett, the mistake chronicler, the last word. From his 100 Mistakes That Changed History he reminds us, “It can even be a little reassuring that so many have blundered so often in the past, and yet we all survive and even thrive.”
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