Failure - The Gift-Wrapped Disaster Your Child needs

Let me be very clear on one point: no parent wants their child to fail. We want them to succeed, to feel proud, to collect gold stars like they are going out of fashion. We want their path to be smooth, their lunchbox to be packed, and the volcano they crafted for a school project to erupt so impressively that it can be seen from space.

But here’s the problem: life doesn’t work out that way. It just doesn't. Sometimes you miss the deadline. Sometimes the volcano only bubbles sadly. And sometimes — brace yourself — your child forgets their PE kit or scores poorly on a test.

That’s where this book comes in.

I'm here to gently (and hopefully with a degree of humour) make the case for letting your child fail. Not because we’re monsters. But because failure is one of the best teachers your child will ever have. Learning how to mess up, recover, and carry on is a life skill more valuable than any other I can think of.

This book is packed with honest tips, real-life examples, cheeky checklists, and practical exercises to help you raise a human who can bounce back from disaster — not one who falls apart when their glue stick runs out.

So let’s take a deep breath, remove the bubble wrap from around your prodigy, and give failure the warm welcome it deserves.