A million times yes.  This is a common mistake of managers&#x2F;older people assuming younger&#x2F;inexperienced folks are dumb from their mistakes and lack of experience.  The latter need patience and some guidance for the former to grow their &quot;common sense&quot; to become more capable&#x2F;productive&#x2F;successful.<p>The other antipattern is spoiling kids and helicopter parenting, which leads to sheltered&#x2F;learned-helplessness kids.  Letting kids struggle more to learn for themselves and earn things is important because the role of the parent to prepare people to become independent, survive and thrive.  Also, expecting them to do more with much less improves their ingenuity out of necessity.  People&#x2F;startups that are broke can often attain what others cannot because they are able to make something awesome out of what other people call &quot;junk&quot; and waste less money.