"Imagine that you ask a young child a question. He answers your question and you say 'wrong'. That's not the right way. You have to ask him why he thinks so and whether he thinks about other options. This way you'll build the confidence he needs for thinking further. Once you shut him up, his thinking is over." Ilan Sela, a fitness trainer When my eldest son began to ride a bike, I used the "patent" my father used to teach me how to ride: inserting a broom stick between the r