Ryan Holiday: Our kids will go through things. They'll have a crisis of identity, a faith of social status. We can point them towards the greatest resource in history, the written word. No matter what your kids are going through, no matter how strange or unique their issues seem, they need to understand that lots of people have struggled with that exact issue. Find books you think will be helpful and put them in the room. Read them together, pay them to read them, leave them around the house. Let the experiences of the past,. the written word, teach them and you.