A Child Developmentalist's Child

Here I am in my local coffee shop, putting up my notes from AERA, and a few tables down a woman is complaining to the director of her son's camp that the son was given a bad rating and not invited back to be a counselor this year because "he was a bad influence".

OMG! she's pulling all the stops of her expertise. Her kid is a saint, and it's all been documented. He's won awards, is a big sports happy team player, is a 3.9 gpa student, been interviewed by the local paper, etc. etc. And, having a PhD in child development, she's whipping our Skinner, and Thorndike, and explaining how the camp messed up.

It strikes me as "preacher's kid" syndrome. The poor child -- no wonder he's a bad influence.