Every Family With A High School Student Must Tackle This Hidden Issue

I always chuckle at Norman Mailer’s pithy depiction of masculine rivalry:  “When two men stop in the street to say hello…one of them loses.”  But it would not be difficult to extrapolate a bit and substitute “parents” for “men”.  For mothers as well as fathers are constantly comparing themselves to other parents when it comes to how their children are doing, and there is no developmental phase during which this process is more highly charged than during senior year and the attendant drama of...