This Is Good Advice For Your Kids

Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 2 p.m.

We\u2019ve talked before about David Epstein\u2019s wonderful book Range, which advises against premature specialization\u2014in athletes, in kids, in intellectual development. It tends to be better, he writes, to pursue a wide variety of activities and build a base of competence than it is to be like Tiger Woods--or rather like Earl Woods--and dedicate yourself or your child to golf at two years old. But it\u2019s important that the message of this book is not oversimplified. There undoubtedl...