<p>My mom let her kids do anything when we were growing up, but we didn’t fail. Our neighbor back home was much more protective. Guess what, she had 4 of her sons fell into the wrong crowds, did drugs and some died of overdose. I let my kids do a lot of things so they can fail a little bit and learn from experience. You can’t tell them everything, for one they won’t listen, but if they make their own mistake they learn forever not to make it again. In fact I encourage them to fail a lot when they are young, as long as they come out alive, they will be learning tons of things and build confidence. When they are young, there is time to recover, not so much when they are older</p>