'Allow Your Children to Fail if You Want Them to Succeed'

New Book Challenges Parents to Accept Failure
In her new book, "Allow Your Children to Fail if You Want Them to Succeed" (now available through AuthorHouse), pediatrician Dr. Avril P. Beckford provides parents with practical tools and tested methods that can help children succeed in today's world. Based on 20 years of professional experience, Beckford challenges parents and teachers to allow children to fail, thus enabling their ultimate success. "Allow Your Children to Fail if You Want Them to Succeed" is unique in that it encourages parents to be comfortable with failure. The author believes that this will "allow children to soar and reach even greater potential because they are free of the fear of failure."

In her new book, Beckford provides parents with the tools necessary to help their children succeed in life by loving them unconditionally, accepting them for who they are and holding them accountable. It focuses on the long-term investment of raising responsible, independent, resilient children of character who will contribute positively to society.

Beckford supports the partnership of parents and teachers in helping children reach this high level of success. Her book persuades readers to give children the opportunity and courage to make mistakes. Beckford discusses taking the shame out of failure and seeing it as a normal part of growth, development and learning. She also details how to relieve stress in children, as well as in schools, created by parents who micromanage and are overprotective. Beckford encourages the use of methods that empower children to take ownership of their actions, accept natural consequences and develop responsibility.

Beckford is a board certified pediatrician, currently practicing in Atlanta and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She founded the Pediatric and Adolescent Center of Cobb in 1994 and is the current vice president and president-elect of the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Beckford has held a teaching position at Penn State University Children's Hospital as chief resident and instructor and is an outpatient clinical preceptor for the pediatric department of The Morehouse School of Medicine. Beckford and her husband, Dr. Lawrence Rowley, lead an active and balanced life with their two sons, Justin and Derek. The author feels that "it is a great blessing to have the opportunity to serve children and their families on a daily basis." "Allow Your Children to Fail if You Want Them to Succeed" is Beckford's first book.