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Parent Acts: Why is it so hard to let our kids fail?

By Kelly Wallace, CNN

There is no question that one of the most difficult things about being a parent is letting our children stumble, fail, make mistakes.

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Kelly Wallace

CNN digital correspondent and editor-at-large Kelly Wallace is a mother of two girls and longtime news reporter who turned her passion for parenting and work-life balance into a new career path.

Dozens of Pikachu characters, the famous character of Nintendo's videogame software Pokemon, parade at the Landmark Plaza shopping mall in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on August 14, 2014. The Pikachu mascots walk around daily to attract summer vacationers as a part of the 'Great Pikachu Outbreak' event through the weekend. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)

Dozens of Pikachu characters, the famous character of Nintendo's videogame software Pokemon, parade at the Landmark Plaza shopping mall in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on August 14, 2014. The Pikachu mascots walk around daily to attract summer vacationers as a part of the 'Great Pikachu Outbreak' event through the weekend. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)

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Teenagers use cell phones after school time in Vaasa on March 30, 2010. AFP PHOTO OLIVIER MORIN. (Photo credit should read OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images)

Teenagers use cell phones after school time in Vaasa on March 30, 2010. AFP PHOTO OLIVIER MORIN. (Photo credit should read OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images)

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talking to kids about death

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WOODBOURNE, NY - SEPTEMBER 20: Infants eat lunch at the federally-funded Head Start school on September 20, 2012 in Woodbourne, New York. The school provides early education, nutrition and health services to 311 children from birth through age 5 from low-income families in Sullivan County, one of the poorest counties in the state of New York. The children receive 2/3 of their daily nutritional needs through meals, which include breakfast, lunch and snack, that are prepared at the school and served family-style in classrooms. The county Head Start Program was expanded with a $1 million grant from President Obama's 2009 stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Head Start, administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the longest-running early education program for children of low-income families in the United States. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

WOODBOURNE, NY - SEPTEMBER 20: Infants eat lunch at the federally-funded Head Start school on September 20, 2012 in Woodbourne, New York. The school provides early education, nutrition and health services to 311 children from birth through age 5 from low-income families in Sullivan County, one of the poorest counties in the state of New York. The children receive 2/3 of their daily nutritional needs through meals, which include breakfast, lunch and snack, that are prepared at the school and served family-style in classrooms. The county Head Start Program was expanded with a $1 million grant from President Obama's 2009 stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Head Start, administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the longest-running early education program for children of low-income families in the United States. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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virtual reality roller coasters nccorig_00003713.jpg

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It is the last day in Drzewo Zycia for Kaia (19) and Natalia (17). Kaia feels nervous about leaving Malawa. Worried about a life without the daily scheduled meals and therapy. She has decided to move to her father?s place. Her mom?s house was where the disease first began, and she worries that going back would cause too many bad memories.

It is the last day in Drzewo Zycia for Kaia (19) and Natalia (17). Kaia feels nervous about leaving Malawa. Worried about a life without the daily scheduled meals and therapy. She has decided to move to her father?s place. Her mom?s house was where the disease first began, and she worries that going back would cause too many bad memories.

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FILE- In this Oct. 4, 2005 file photo, a Danielle Holland reacts as she is given a FluMist influenza vaccination in St. Leonard, Md. On Wednesday, June 22, 2016, federal officials reported the latest in a growing series of study findings that show AstraZeneca's nasally-administered FluMist has not been working. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner, File)

FILE- In this Oct. 4, 2005 file photo, a Danielle Holland reacts as she is given a FluMist influenza vaccination in St. Leonard, Md. On Wednesday, June 22, 2016, federal officials reported the latest in a growing series of study findings that show AstraZeneca's nasally-administered FluMist has not been working. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner, File)

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girl stands on toilet mother church intv_00000515.jpg

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High school students writing on paper at desk in classroom.

High school students writing on paper at desk in classroom.

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spc vital signs concussion b_00003812.jpg

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More than 6,000 children this summer whose parents have been touched by cancer will visit Camp Kesem this summer.

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A visitor touches a picture of Harambe at a makeshift memorial outside the Gorilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, on Tuesday, June 7.

A visitor touches a picture of Harambe at a makeshift memorial outside the Gorilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, on Tuesday, June 7.

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sot ct ana m. marquez-greene piano_00002011

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orlando shooting vigils pulse lgbt omar mateen orig_00000006.jpg

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Kids, Sleep & Obesity_00004626.jpg

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Donata & Pietro
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cincinnati zoo gorilla harambe death presser bts nr_00000325

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Richmond CA, where they offer suspects stipends to turn in their guns and go straight.

Richmond CA, where they offer suspects stipends to turn in their guns and go straight.

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wkrc cincinnati gorilla shot zoo pkg_00004911.jpg

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(FILE) Picture taken in Montevideo on May 8, 2013 of a young man smoking a marijuana joint during a demonstration demanding a new law on cannabis. Despite the bill to legalize the cultivation and production of marijuana has yet to be passed by the Senate, the Uruguayan government is already preparing its regulations which include a sale price of one gram per dollar. AFP PHOTO / Pablo PORCIUNCULA (Photo credit should read PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP/Getty Images)

(FILE) Picture taken in Montevideo on May 8, 2013 of a young man smoking a marijuana joint during a demonstration demanding a new law on cannabis. Despite the bill to legalize the cultivation and production of marijuana has yet to be passed by the Senate, the Uruguayan government is already preparing its regulations which include a sale price of one gram per dollar. AFP PHOTO / Pablo PORCIUNCULA (Photo credit should read PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Indian mother Sonia (R) looks on as her newborn baby girl sleeps at a government hospital in Amritsar on July 11, 2013, on the occasion of World Population Day. Africa and Asia are the continents that will see the fastest urban population growth in the next 40 years, a UN report said earlier in the year noting that India and China are leading the surge. The Earth's population is expected to roughly triple by 2050 compared to a century earlier. It stood at three billion in 1950, reached seven billion in 2011 and is likely to reach about 9.5 billion by 2050 -- a rise that will occur especially in the poorest countries, according to UN estimates. AFP PHOTO/NARINDER NANU (Photo credit should read NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images)

Indian mother Sonia (R) looks on as her newborn baby girl sleeps at a government hospital in Amritsar on July 11, 2013, on the occasion of World Population Day. Africa and Asia are the continents that will see the fastest urban population growth in the next 40 years, a UN report said earlier in the year noting that India and China are leading the surge. The Earth's population is expected to roughly triple by 2050 compared to a century earlier. It stood at three billion in 1950, reached seven billion in 2011 and is likely to reach about 9.5 billion by 2050 -- a rise that will occur especially in the poorest countries, according to UN estimates. AFP PHOTO/NARINDER NANU (Photo credit should read NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images)

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