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It's Not So Fun to Outdo Your Parent

Emily, you wrote yesterday about the tricky feeling of watching your son outperform you, and finding it discomfiting. But kids can be just as uncomfortable in the surpassing role as the parents are about being bested. My all-girls basketball team used to gather every Sunday afternoon to scrimmage our parents. It was mostly dads who took the bait ... (Read more in Double X.)