Faced with a Parenting Dilemma? Write a Book About It! Jacob Grant Comes By to Talk About NO FAIR

Show of hands. How many of you out there watched the film The Legend of Billie Jean when you were young? Mmhm. Now how many of you walked around for weeks afterwards saying to your friends in faux Southern accents so thick they practically dripped, “Fair is fair!”? Yup. Me too. And who could blame us? Fairness, or the lack thereof, is burned into the bones of every child from birth onward. Honestly, there are studies out there showing that even babies want fairness, yes indeed they do.

So how...