Prance Through Your Days Like Randy the Badly Drawn Horse: A Q&A with T.L McBeth

Folks, we talk a lot about instilling confidence in our children. It seems like a great idea. I mean, we don’t want our kids to walk around with bloated egos or anything, but it would be awfully nice if they tried new things, had the confidence to fail on occasion, and generally looked upon the world as an exciting challenge they’re willing to tackle.

Then you actually have kids and you realize it’s all hooey. Kids do as kids do.

I have two kids. One is often very confident and one, most ...