What Do My Kid’s Grades Have to Do With Me? Nothing!

There seems to be something almost pathological surrounding our intense focus on our children’s school performance.It always confounds me how many parents who were in all likelihood not “A” students themselves have an expectation that their children should and will be.

Growing up, I was encouraged to work hard in school and to try to achieve academically. At the same time, I knew that my academic success or lack of it, did not define my parents. Even though I knew that “performing well” made...