This Is Good Advice For Your Kids

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

b'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...'