Fear of failure is not always about things that other people understand.
Anxiety and fear are powerful emotions and they can have severe impact on behaviour.
Some children do not ask for help feom teachers because they fear looking dumb, even though a teacher's role is to take questions and provide help.
Some schools recognise this fear of failure is paralysing for some people and they run programmes to overcome it. Here's an example of a good girl's school in England that runs a failure week. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16879336
The fears involved in a vegetable patch might be:
+ I never complete projects and this is going to be another one of those
+ I don't know what I am doing and I am going to waste time and money
+ I don't know what I am doing and people will mock me
...and so on. These fears are real, but can be overcome with reasonably simple techniques.
Those techniques include saying "it's just a vegetable patch; you can't screw it up", but probably using slightly different wording.
Anxiety and fear are powerful emotions and they can have severe impact on behaviour.
Some children do not ask for help feom teachers because they fear looking dumb, even though a teacher's role is to take questions and provide help.
Some schools recognise this fear of failure is paralysing for some people and they run programmes to overcome it. Here's an example of a good girl's school in England that runs a failure week. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16879336
The fears involved in a vegetable patch might be:
+ I never complete projects and this is going to be another one of those
+ I don't know what I am doing and I am going to waste time and money
+ I don't know what I am doing and people will mock me
...and so on. These fears are real, but can be overcome with reasonably simple techniques.
Those techniques include saying "it's just a vegetable patch; you can't screw it up", but probably using slightly different wording.