How can we better support teens who have a fear of messing up?With A-level and GCSE results days getting closer, the tension in many homes is starting to rise.
For an increasing number of young people, the anxiety goes beyond pre-results nerves. Welcome to FOMU: not ‘fear of missing out’, but ‘fear of messing up’.
Fear of messing up is not something teenagers are born with. Babies and toddlers are brilliant, relentless failers. They topple, stumble and babble their way through thousands of mistakes without a flicker of shame, because no one has yet told them that failing is something to dread.
That changes, though. Somewhere along the way, a telling look from a teacher, a disappo...
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