Published: December 1, 2006

Relatively Misguided

I am writing in response to your article, [ “Relative Control,” October] which is apparently intended to be a promotion of the book How to Handle Difficult Parents . Throughout my 20-year career as an educator, I have encountered parents in many contexts. I have even worked as a school administrator and been subjected to antagonistic, conspiratorial, and sabotaging actions from parents. I may have been angry with parents whose actions or attitudes I found personally reprehensible, but I never stooped so low as to use such language as “ wrangling tech niques for a few of the toughest breeds” in...