Let your daughter know you love her, even when she makes mistakes.
After all, mistakes are just another opportunity to learn and improve.
This is more about grace.
How do you help your child live through her failures? As we said, talk about your own. Live in a household that models forgiveness for mistakes, whether the error is spilled milk or a misplaced phone message. And finally, don’t treat failure as a taboo subject. Don’t ignore the missed basket in basketball. Talk about it. Ask her if she could have done anything different. And then move on. Take her to get ice cream after her failures and successes. Help her lighten up and see that there is much about her that is good and enjoyable even when she makes mistakes.
-Melissa Trevathan and Sissy Goff, Raising Girls
