Richard Hogan: Don't raise risk-averse kids — failing is good for us all

We should push to have the courage to go for things, and teach our children that not getting something isn’t failure but a part of a healthy life journey

Richard Hogan. Photograph Moya Nolan

Summer is coming. You can feel it. The rough winds that usually shake the darling buds of May quietened last weekend and we got a glimpse of what’s to come. We supposedly even got a glimpse of the aurora borealis. 

Although I have to admit, I went out at night and looked. Nothing. Astronomical delights have always seemed to escape my eyes.