“I’ll never forget the day, in my practice, when I had a consultation with parents of a timid six-year-old followed by a consultation with parents of an impressionable sixteen-year-old. The first set of parents told me: “Chase watches all his friends go play and he hangs back—even when his friends ask him to join, sometimes he says no! He’s so timid. I wish he was more confident.” Then, in the next hour, the parents of the teenager said: “It’s like Alex will just do whatever his friends are doing. It’s like he can’t think for himself, he’s so easily swayed. I wish he was more confident.”