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Teenagers Learning From Mistakes
- If your child
experiments with drugs, it's important to remember we all make mistakes.
Without mistakes we don't learn, we can't get better at what we do and we
don't find out what is wrong.
- When we make mistakes we
can:
- look at things
differently and find new solutions
- think creatively and
find many possible answers
- find many ways of
solving a problem
- find rules that are
'old' and no longer of use, whether they be rules of society or rules of
our minds
- find a solution to
solve another problem
- have a sense of humour
- find a new way of
thinking
- change directions so
we don't keep on doing the wrong thing
- learn about new
things.
- Mistakes need to be seen
as stepping stones to finding new ways, ideas, pathways and solutions.
- To learn from our
mistakes we need to know it's okay to make them. We then need to think
about them.
- Mistakes are not bad,
they are a part of growing and changing. Mistakes are experiences which
give information to help us make decisions and learn.
- You can help your
children learn from mistakes when you:
- don't take mistakes
too seriously
- allow them to play
with and try new ideas
- help them think of
other ideas or ways of behaving
- play with silly ideas
to see where they might go
- ask 'what if'
questions, eg 'what of everyone did that?' 'what if this happened?'
- help them think about
all the things which might have happened as a result of a mistake
- encourage them to try
new things and take risks
- let them know when you
have made a mistake.
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