What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake

This interactive self-help book guides children and their parents through the emotions underlying a fear of making mistakes using strategies and techniques based on cognitive-behavioral principles.

What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake helps kids take the fear out of failing and making mistakes to just keep on going! Kids who worry about being wrong try to control situations to ensure their success, blame others for their failings, or be critical in general. They may have trouble making decisions for fear of making the wrong one. It’s exhausting trying to avoid mistakes. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to cope with mistakes—so they can explore new territory without fear!

Jacqueline B. Toner, PhD,is a clinical psychologist, having earned her PhD from the University of Virginia and served as chief facilitator for a medical resources project with Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Carnegie Mellon University.

Claire A. B. Freeland, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, working for more than thirty-five years with youth and their families. Interested in bringing the general principles of cognitive–behavioral therapy to families everywhere.

Watch the author(s) demonstrate What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake: A Kid's Guide to Accepting Imperfection, Revised Edition.opens in new window Interested in this book? Purchase a copy to continue (or start) the conversation with the children in your life.