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Stumbling blocks can be steppingstones to a child's success. Learning from your mistakes is crucial to acquiring success in life. In order to gain from our experiences we must be willing to accept and learn from our failures as well as our successes.

We learn a great deal from our failures. The most successful people in America have failed many times before reaching total success in life. Children are no different than successful people who never quit trying. With each failure, children acquire new knowledge and skills which are essential to personal growth and development. New skills can inevitably lead to the discovery of ways to become successful and achieve goals. No one ever becomes successful without first experiencing failures. Failures are the ultimate learning tool for children.

Skills and knowledge that children acquire during their pursuit of success are social skills, economic skills, and mental skills. All of these skills become sharpened with each failure children experience. Eventually, their skills will become sharpened enough to overcome the obstacles placed in their paths and enable them to reach their goals.

Children are much more adaptable to changes and challenges presented to them by life. Obstacles to goals provide children who are hoping to achieve success in life with the steppingstones necessary to cross the streams, but not until after they've gotten their feet wet a few times. Children who find stumbling blocks in their paths to achievements and attempt to overcome them are more fit mentally, to reach their goals in life.

Adults are more resistant to changes and challenges, because most adults have become rooted in their behaviors. They have developed already and for the most part, do not wish to learn new skills, or alter their behaviors so that they can overcome obstacles.

Children have more tenacity, adaptability, and perseverance than adults do. Children are also more competitive and peer-oriented than adults, so they are more likely to continue pursuing success in the face of obstacles because of peer pressure and a competitive spirit. Children have what takes to achieve success in spite of adversity.

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