[dbg31415]

There is no one right way to run a family. What works for one won't work for another.

I feel like, if you can somehow quantify success on a bell-curve, the values in this article aim to land kids in the middle two quadrants. You won't end up with kids in the bottom quadrant... but you also won't end up with individuals capable of soaring to great heights either. Just overall solid, middling, performers. There just would be no Apple, Microsoft, Dell, or any of the others... because people would have been conditioned not to take risks.

Anyway Plato wrote already wrote a response to this and it was in all the Philosophy 101 classes.

* Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave" || http://historyguide.org/intellect/allegory.html

[VLM]

"because people would have been conditioned not to take risks."

Not sure we read the same article, several paragraphs boiling down to "here are my car repair tools best of luck" I've done brake jobs and I'd at least oversee the task if nothing else. Or "here's a plane ticket to Europe come home when your cousins get too annoying"