When your child experiences failure, disappointment, or rejection, what's your first instinct?

Do you step in and fix it? Make excuses? Try to make the pain disappear?

Or do you help them learn how to overcome it?

In Episode 169 of High Performance Parenting, Greg and Jacquie Francis continue their conversation about one of the biggest lies parents believe: that our children's happiness should always come first.

This week, they share two real-life parenting experiences.

First, they revisit their daughter Bella's costly driving mistake and explain how they helped her find a solution while still allowing her to take financial responsibility.

Then they share what happened when their 14-year-old son Druce tried out for his high school golf team—and didn't make it.

Druce was naturally talented. He loved golf. But when the pressure of competitive tryouts arrived, his performance fell apart.

As parents, Greg and Jacquie watched their normally outgoing son become quiet and deeply disappointed.

They faced a difficult choice: protect him from the pain, make excuses for what happened, or allow the experience to teach him something he couldn't learn simply by being told.

And what Druce did next surprised them.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why parents need to gradually stop removing obstacles as children mature
• How to support kids through disappointment without rescuing them
• Why natural talent isn't enough without preparation and mental toughness
• How failure can become motivation for meaningful growth
• What to say when your child doesn't make the team
• Why making excuses can prevent kids from taking ownership
• How to teach resilience and perseverance through real experiences
• The difference between protecting children and preparing them for adulthood
• How faith, prayer, and personal responsibility work together
• A powerful question to ask when your child faces a difficult challenge

Greg and Jacquie remind parents that their job isn't to raise children who never experience pain or disappointment.

It's to raise adults who know how to overcome it.

🎙️ Watch Episode 169 of High Performance Parenting and join Greg and Jacquie as they help families raise champion children in a crazy world.

QUESTION: Are you preparing your kids for life, or protecting them from life?

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• (00:00) - Are You Removing Every Obstacle?
• (00:29) - Intro
• (01:11) - When to Stop Rescuing Your Kids
• (01:56) - Preparing Teens for Responsibility
• (02:35) - Bella's Accident: The Outcome
• (03:29) - Drew's Competitive Golf Tryouts
• (05:34) - When Talent Meets Pressure
• (06:51) - Drew Doesn't Make the Team
• (07:42) - Why Mental Toughness Matters
• (09:02) - How Parents Should Respond to Failure
• (10:09) - Drew's Decision to Try Again
• (11:00) - Why Some Lessons Must Be Experienced
• (12:04) - Learning From Previous Setbacks
• (13:25) - Are You Rescuing Too Early?
• (13:59) - Preparing Kids for Life vs. Protecting Them
• (15:20) - Comfort Is a Terrible Teacher