Stage Parenting: The Good, the Bad and the Exhausted
By Melissa Hillman We're all familiar with the idea of the stage parent: pushy, entitled, overbearing, demanding, obsessed with her child's career and living vicariously through her child's potential. Anyone who's worked in a youth program has seen it: parents making unreasonable demands of a director, disparaging children in larger roles, or attempting to override a director's note. Even people who writ…