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The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed by Jessica Lahey

The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed runs 7.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Jessica Lahey (about 5.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.8listening hrs
Mental Health & Psychologystore shelf
2015released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 7.8 hours of listening.

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1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 7.8 hours, it runs longer than 63% of the 4,526 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed is an audiobook by Jessica Lahey: a 7.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Jessica Lahey, released August 11, 2015, on the Mental Health & Psychology and Relationships & Intimacy shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
7.8 hrs
Narrated by
Jessica Lahey
Released
August 11, 2015
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Mental Health & Psychology, Relationships & Intimacy, For Podcast Lovers
ISBN
9780062332356

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed as an audiobook?

The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed runs 7.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.2 hours.

Is The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed?

The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed is narrated by Jessica Lahey.