Many parents try to do everything for their children; they push hard to give kids every possible advantage. But parents can overestimate their roles in a child's development, which can lead to extreme parental behavior. "One mother wrote me, is it really OK to have her six-month-old crawl two miles a day?" says Temple psychologist Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. "She found that after a mile her child was getting tired." Hirsh-Pasek said that parents shouldn't consider children to be empty vessels to be micromanaged. Think of them as discoverers and explorers, with parents as their guides.