How to Help Your Child Fail Like a Champion

Scripture-based advice for parents whose kids didn’t get the part, stick the landing, or win the race.

The audience became silent as the young man sat down at the piano. He looked tall and self-assured and his mother was confident that he was just going to kill this piece for his end-of-the-year recital. And why shouldn’t he? He practiced diligently every day. His piece was so familiar that family members found themselves humming or singing parts of it throughout the day. This recital piece had woven itself into the background music of daily family life. That’s how much he had played it.

The first few bars sounded familiar. But then things slowly fell apart. It was as if his brain and his fingers did not retain any of the familiarity they had shown just a few hours ago when he played the piece at home. Desperately he kept attempting to find the melody, find the chords, and have his hands find that familiar flow. His mother sat in the audience with her head bowed. “Please God. Help him to remember this. You know he can do it. Please, God, help him out.”

I was that mom.

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