As a society, and sometimes as parents, look at how myopic we are becoming. If we focus exclusively on the chemical makeup of a child’s brain, we miss the larger contexts of who they are, and what influences them (their lives, families, their environments). If we focus exclusively on their tendencies, we miss the child; we can miss their destiny, or telos. By seeing only tendencies, syndromes, and labels, we risk not seeing our children’s intrinsic intent, their deep biographical gesture in the world.
