Real-world competence for the child emerges from participating as an active but junior partner, an Apprentice, carefully guided by parents and other adults to master complex problems and settings, despite increasingly greater levels of uncertainty and unexpected change.  Guides help the child capture and stockpile critical memories that build an experiential repository of success in gradually more complex environments.  Parents are taught to re-think their daily lifestyle, structuring activities throughout the day to provide their child with safe but challenging opportunities for discovery.