  Heres some advice from Samuel Butler on how to raise a child (for you, Maiko, how to raise Tricky). When asked to give a rule of life for the son of a friend he said, "Do not let him try and find out who wrote the letters of Junius. " Pressed for further counsel he added, "Nor yet who was the man in the iron mask"--and he would say no more. Don't bore people. 
