Some of those things are terrible and dangerous to others. But parents need to be so much more measured in their responses.

Yes, you find out your kid was throwing stuff off bridges or being a vile bully, you come down like a pile of bricks.

But that doesn’t mean a full safety-rail environment. That means kids will jump off high places and break into others and we slap them on the wrist and carry on. That means lots of broken bones and the very occasional tragedy. Because a whole generation prone to mental illness and incapable of autonomy is infinitely worse. I think we’ve learned that by now.