I hear a lot of people say
Let’s teach our kids to fail
Take care you don’t conflate this with
Going in with little preparation
All you do there
Is desensitize a soul to failure
And teach them that
There is always an excuse
For poor performance
Something or someone
To blame it all on
That is not a failure to learn from
That is merely the consequence of dereliction
No, let’s not do that
Let’s prepare our children to prepare
To go for the long haul
To pour their blood and sweat
Into whatever vessel
Their battles will be fought in
Prepare them
Prepare them to squeeze themselves
Until they can say
Truthfully
I’ve done all I can, so here goes
And then when they fail
Now THERE is something
Worth learning from
See the man who donned
Two coats of mail
He taught us a lesson
In how to fail