How to Cope With Failure as an Eight Year Old

When you get to the elite level of anything, you actually are constantly dipping and then the goal is to come back a little bit higher than where you started. So anyone that's going straight up into the right at any age probably isn't pushing themselves hard enough. The ones who make it have to go through some sort of struggle when they're young. It could be just learning how to fail and lose or deal with an injury or what have you. If your child's not progressing quickly early on, don't freak out. Like that could be a very good thing. And it also gives you these teachable moments where it's like, you know, here's how you learn how to