[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Yes well . . . considering the deafening silence from Joe, I think he has no answer for my objections to his elitism. He hardly would claim that he learned nothing while teaching graduate students, so the idea that a tutoring parent learns nothing is fatuous.

As to the idea that a child might develop to the point where s/he can develop further only with guidance from someone more expert than the parent, I would say that unless the parent is raising the child to follow directly in his/her own footsteps, that is a question not of "if" but of when.

And speaking of a child following in a parent's footsteps, here's a case for you:

dad runs contracting business

son shows up on the job site

dad says, "Why aren't you in school?"

son says, "School is boring and I want to work."

dad says, "You'll never wear a white shirt."

son says, "I know."

What will come of that boy? Just like an immigrant to America wants to go home a success or not at all, our emigrant from school to work had something to prove. The son takes over the father's business, increases its profits, and retires to Florida well-off. No college degree, nor even a high school diploma. Both his daughters are prosperous college grads--and he never broke a sweat paying for their tuition.

[rubbertramp]

Have you ever read "Bitter Harvest" by Anne Ruell? It is about a female physician who took Prozac and slowly tried to murder her husband with Ricin and later burned her house down with her kids in it. The husband, also a physician, survived. She was found guilty.

Anne Ruell didn't blame the Prozac, instead she demonized this formerly highly accomplished woman. The doctor herself describes feeling split off from herself and watching someone else do the crimes...which is a constant theme among Prozac users...dissociation.