Have I Totally Screwed Up My Kid? Mitchell Milch, Marybeth Hicks & PAlison Gopnik Marybeth Hicks, columnist, The Washington Times, and author of Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World. Mitchell Milch, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Ridegwood, NJ. Alison Gopnik, Professor at University of California Berkeley. In a collaborative effort, she wrote Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind.