Do check out this insightful post and fascinating comment thread. "Sparkylong" serves as the voice of insight and reason. "Turk" plays the role of narcissistic father.
The post and thread reminded me of a brilliant insight from The Last Psychiatrist: "[Today's parents] secretly read their kid's email and MySpace accounts, but have never once read the kid's math book. (If you do your kid's math homework with them every night, I swear to you that you won't need to worry about MySpace.)."
