You Can't Prevent Them From Making Mistakes

Published: March 2, 2020, 2 p.m.

Nobody wants to see their kid make a mistake. That\u2019s why we spend so much time teaching them right and wrong, why we try to be a good example, why we try to catch and stop them when we see them going down the wrong path. Since the beginning of time fathers have been doing this...and since the beginning of time have had, at best, only minimal success. In the novel Siddhartha, the title character tries desperately to convince his son of the importance of the simple way of life, hav...