Funny book that helps keep things in perspective

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	• Accept My Kid, Please!: A Dad's Descent into College Application Hell Hank Herman Da Capo Press, 2004 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Humorous & Informative

A fun read for the parent of a high school junior or senior. The kids will enjoy this as well. Humorous insight into the college application process from an involved parent's perspective. Helps lighten up this overly stressful right of passage.

HITS HOME, AND I'M GLAD IT'S OVER

On the spot memoir about the crazy but wonderful times a family
experiences on the road to higher education! I've given it to
all I know who are about to embark on the college thing. Thank you, thank you Hank Herman!

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Funny book that helps keep things in perspective

What a great read! Really funny and engaging. I saw a lot of people I know in Hank Herman's description of his hard work in gaining college admission. I've enjoyed sending it to friends who are going through it so they can keep a healthy perspective on their... passions and aspirations.

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He stole my kid...

or he was in the backseat of my car as we made the rounds...hilarious! Every parent should read this before beginning the "rounds". It makes you realize that as awful as you may think your journey is, a VERY large group of parents are making the same trip...we just can't talk about it without sobbing.
Parents take heart...after nightmare trips similar to Mr. Herman's, my son (or maybe he IS really Hank Herman's) selected the school that was exactly right for him.
We have gifted all friends who have college-bound children with this book. It is wise and witty and full of gems that parents can use during their tours. Take it on the trip with you, it'll help to remind you to keep it all in perspective.
Highly recommended.

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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.

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