The Psychology of achievement and failure?
All too often, parents and professionals believe that riding a trike is beyond a child’s capability because of their learning difficulty. This is understandable when a child is a very low achiever but experience has taught us that learning difficulties can almost always be overcome and for a very good reason. A tricycle has a very powerful force in its favour that can transcend most obstacles. It’s fun! We humans fail at a task because it’s too difficult – not because we don’t want to succeed at it. Playing a musical instrument is an example that most of us can relate to! Most of us would love to play a violin for example but we don’t have the ‘hand – ear – brain’ co-ordination to do so. We give up instead of persevering and try something easier like cooking or scuba diving or DIY. The point is; learning difficulty is a very relative thing and no doubt to the concert violinist, we ordinary folk have a ‘learning difficulty’! Self-esteem and achievement are important to us all, and child
