As a proud parent, it can be tempting to compare and contrast your baby to Mr. Chen’s wee one next door. When this is sometimes helpful in figuring out what to expect and detecting problems ahead, Nicholas Day cautions parents against taking the words of “experts” and other well-meaning parents as gospel. Instead, he writes, “The typical child, it turns out, is a myth.” This is helpful advice for parents to keep at hand, be it for a newborn or feisty tween. Read more from the Slate article here.
