>if by “intention” you mean “clumsily projected attitude”. Nah, just intention. For example, teaching children arithmetic with great moral seriousness, as we d

>if by “intention” you mean “clumsily projected attitude”. Nah, just intention. For example, teaching children arithmetic with great moral seriousness, as we do, doesn't produce great arithmeticians. It merely encourages people to become math teachers. >The idea that parenting isn't a field which can be, and is, productively studied Trouble is that most of the knowledge is inexplicit and that family life is private. So trying to uncover and understand what's really going on is hard. If you try to study families empirically then you're (a) interfering with their normal activities, and (b) avoiding the fact that morality is independent of outcome. However, from the article, 'coach' suggests people are already giving advice. They think they know the answers.