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How to Help You, Your Children Deal with Life’s Many Mistakes, Failures

April 26, 2018 by Kevin McKeever

mistakes failures broken dish

Mistakes failures suck. No. We meant mistakes “or” failures suck. Or should it be “and”? Oops.

No one is perfect, they say, even though you try valiantly to be the perfect parent. And neither is your child, no matter what you post of your social media channels. So we have some mistaken failure advice, er, mistake and failure advice for you.

In the latest of our “City Dads Sessions” video series, our intrepid Los Angeles Dads Group co-organizer Trevor Mulligan asks several fathers for their best parenting tips on dealing with life’s many wrong turns.

Here is what they had to say:

Thanks to Chip Roberts, Chris Bernholdt and Charlie Capen who took time out from the 2017 HomeDadCon at-home father convention in Portland this past September to share their words of wisdom.

“Mistakes Failures” broken dish photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash.

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Filed Under: National, parenting advice Tagged With: City Dads Sessions, failure, tips, video

About Kevin McKeever

City Dads Group Editor Kevin McKeever runs Write On, Kevin Communications when not being an at-home dad to three: boy, girl and canine. He wrote a two-time nationally award-winning newspaper column, blogs at Always Home and Uncool and tweets as @homeanduncool. His work has been featured in USA Today, Canada’s Globe and Mail, the New York Daily News and landfills worldwide.

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