Editor’s note: Barry Courter has a 26-year-old son who is a college graduate and a 21-year-old daughter who is a senior in college. Each week he poses a question he wishes they would ask.
Q: Dad, how’d you learn so much?
A: Time and lots of mistakes. The older I get the more I become convinced that we learn more from our mistakes than from our successes. That’s why I think it is so important for parents to let their kids fail on their own. It’s hard, but important.