In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first.
Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.
Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'
