Mindset coach, Audrey Butler, in an assembly at Spring City Elementary, taught the students how to handle mistakes and failures. Wyatt the Wizard helped Afraid-to-Fail Fred learn how to handle his mistakes and let them go. As an object lesson, Afraid-to-Fail Fred wore a backpack. Every time he made a mistake or failed, a rock was put into his backpack. Eventually, his backpack became very heavy. Fred quit doing sports and other things he really enjoyed because he was afraid of making a mistake and didn’t want his backpack get any heavier. Wyatt the Wizard taught Afraid-to-Fail Fred that mistakes are a normal part of learning and that we need to fix them and then let them go. It’s okay to make mistakes and we don’t have to be afraid of making them.

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