Offering guidance to children in advance of events is a way of preparing children to be skillful. It is setting them up to be successful rather than to struggle with incompetence and a lack of information. On first reading, you may think I mean that parents should design situations where their child is bound to excel, creating perfect scenarios where kids hit bullseyes when they throw balls, get every answer right on an easy game of trivia, or add the final piece to a nearly complete puzzle. Definitely not!! That simply undermines children’s drive to try for themselves and . . .