Failure...

This is a continuation of my last post.  I had eluded to the fact that I wanted to discuss FAILURE.

I refuse to write a dissertation within this post so I will attempt to be brief.  Failure is so misunderstood in my experience.  It seems sometimes that we, in education or life, tend to have a distorted view of failing.  Failing is the one of the greatest things we can do.  It is the path to success.  How can you understand success without failure? 

I have used the example of learning to ride a bike to describe failing.  What if we were afraid to fail or stopped when we failed?  We would never have learned to ride a bike?  Failure is necessary.

So, in regards to this project.  We look forward to the failures that lie ahead.  Those hiccups will allow us to ask better questions and start new paths of discovery.  I am thankful that my plants died the first go around.  After a bit of research my plants suffered from "damping off."  A common fungus problem with new seedlings.  We have a new seedling approach and now know what to look for. My daughter will understand through this project that failure is necessary but it is how we respond to that failure that defines us. 

For those of you who do not see the pictures I will quote.  It is the last scene from Meet the Robinsons.  

"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... 

and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

Walt Disney