Eating Ice Cream at 7:30 a.m. and Other Advice for Parents

West Shore’s Dave Lesko has spent 38 years as a guidance counselor, 43 years as a baseball umpire, 41 years as a father and 11 as a grandfather, as well as umpteen years of talking with scores of young people about their futures.   With those credentials, we figure he had something helpful to say to parents who want to focus their high schoolers, lovingly but pointedly, on the future, which we adults call real life.  Here’s Dave’s advice, delivered confidently yet humbly.