I taught and worked as an administrator in secondary school arts for almost a decade, and to be honest I probably didn’t encounter more than a handful of true Stage Mothers or Fathers in all that time. But those I did come across were utterly terrifying. They are basically the same creature as the parent that screams at their kid from the bleachers -- living vicariously, losing touch with the real stakes of a situation, injecting themselves into all situations regardless of how inappropriate it…