<p>Thanks, idad.</p>
<p>I saw this piece yesterday, and found it moving. The boys he describes sound just like my 15-year-old son. I was dismayed to read that he may not shape up himself by the time he gets to college, but I have some hope that the girls will whip him into shape!</p>
<p>I could really relate to that piece. My son is graduating from UChicago this spring. He's not a natty dresser, either . . .</p>
<p>The article isn't surprising. Nobody can expect the high school patterns of behavior to end abruptly once young men and women graduate and move on to college. Others have written about why girls have their acts together far sooner than boys. My high school son is one of five boys out of twenty-two in his grade who made Dean's List. Sounds like that is pretty typical. I am confident this will all even out in the long run. As the New York Times itself has written, many of the super achieving women don't plan to stay on the fast track. The men, faced with the need to make money, and no longer in their adolescent growth years, will get their lives in order. The alternative is a lot of women may be unhappy marrying down.</p>