Failure Resume — What Your Mistakes Taught You
The teen lists their biggest failures, mistakes, and setbacks, then examines what each one taught them. This builds failure tolerance, learning orientation, vulnerability, and the ability to reframe setbacks as growth. The activity normalizes failure as an essential part of development and challenges the perfectionism that haunts many teens.
Free to do together whenever you like.
What you'll need
Paper or notes app for writing the failure resume. Privacy and emotional safety are essential. The parent should go first with their own failure if possible — it models vulnerability and makes the teen's sharing feel less risky. Choose a time when the teen is not already feeling down about something.
How it works
The 3-step guide, with what to look for at each step, is for signed-in parents.