Accept My Kid, Please!

A humorous, though all-too-true-to-life narrative of parental over-involvement in the college application process.When it came to college acceptance for his first-born child, Hank Herman-an average Dad with average hopes and dreams for his son`s college career-imagined he could resist the urge to meddle, that he could allow his son to make decisions for himself. Feeling slightly smug and superior to the good parents he`d seen go berserk before, he vowed not to become controlling and obsessed.Flash-forward to the 2` x 3` war board Herman has created to organize and rate the 36 colleges or universities he`s selected as suitable for his son. Note the lengths to which he goes to market his candidate/son as a scholar and an athlete. See the sports scrapbook he has naively constructed for the coaches who now, alas, only accept video clips. Funny, self-deprecating, and all-too-familiar to today`s parents, Accept My Kid, Please! details one good father`s battle with his worst side. A book for parents looking ahead to or back at their child`s college application process, it is an amusingly accurate cautionary tale. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.