{"id":532,"date":"2008-06-17T22:52:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T02:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/06\/17\/failure-and-integrity\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T22:52:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T02:52:35","slug":"failure-and-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Failure and Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When teenagers let themselves fall short by failing to hold onto their integrity, they simultaneously have a tremendous opportunity to reaffirm themselves and their integrity.\u00c2\u00a0 That is, without failures, they do not learn how valuable their integrity is to their well-being.\u00c2\u00a0 And this is the ultimate paradox of successfully raising teenagers:\u00c2\u00a0 They need to experience a bunch of failures along the way to adulthood.\u00c2\u00a0 And how we handle their failures and how we teach them to address these missteps is crucial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Michael Riera, PhD, <em>Staying Connected to Your Teenager, <\/em>p. 155<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When teenagers let themselves fall short by failing to hold onto their integrity, they simultaneously have a tremendous opportunity to reaffirm themselves and their integrity.\u00c2\u00a0 That is, without failures, they do not learn how valuable their integrity is to their well-being.\u00c2\u00a0 And this is the ultimate paradox of successfully raising teenagers:\u00c2\u00a0 They need to experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,28,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letting-go","category-life","category-parenting","category-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}