Parents Can Help Children Turn ‘Healthy Struggles’ Into Capability, Confidence in Life: Lee Benson
Instead of taking challenges away from their children, parents can give them “healthy struggles” that can help build the capabilities and confidence they need to succeed in life, said Lee Benson, a serial entrepreneur and Wall Street Journal best-selling author.
“What we need to get at is to embrace this concept that struggle is actually really good, and trust it,” Benson told EpochTV host Jan Jekielek in a recent interview on “American Thought Leaders.”
Growing up in a low-income family in eastern Washington State in the early 1940s, Benson was kicked out of his parents’ house as a high school senior. But by that point, he was already financially competent and independent, thanks to many “healthy struggles” he had already overcome….