I have been personally involved in the transformation of a family, but it involved a heavy amount of support on my part, to the student (encouraging her, advising her) as well as a significant amount of drama and the cooperation/involvement of two universities. I told the student that as soon as her mother saw how happy her daughter was in the college and major that suited her so well, the mother’s previous agenda would dissolve. I was right, and way sooner than either the student or I assumed. IOW, I do not agree with the author of the article that it’s the same idea if the student just finds his or her own voice, so to speak. More than one experience has confirmed that; this was just the most dramatic and risky one of all the ones I have participated in. In the other situations, too, the student absolutely needed an “outside” advocate strengthening his or her own inner resolve. That resolve has also often provided the student with energy and insight to write brave essays which often alluded to such Moments of Truth.