You Have to Let Them Struggle

Published: May 25, 2020, 5 a.m.

b'"No father wants to see their kids suffer. It\\u2019s almost more painful for you than it is for them to watch them trip over their words, to scratch their heads in front of their homework, or to bumble their way through the early years of their career. Biologically this makes sense\\u2014you\\u2019re designed to want to save them, to empathize on almost a self-destructive level. But evolutionarily it also doesn\\u2019t make sense. If they never struggle, they can\\u2019t grow, they can\\u2019t learn, they can\\u2019t get bet...'