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Detail How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
Author : Julie Lythcott-Haims
Pages : 368 pages
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 1250093635
ISBN-13 : 9781250093639
Synopsis How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate philosophy for raising preteens and teens to self-sufficient young adulthoodIn How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers, educators, and employers, and on her own insights as a mother and as a student dean to highlight the ways in which overparenting harms children, their stressed-out parents, and society at large. While empathizing with the parental hopes and, especially, fears that lead to overhelping, Lythcott-Haims offers practical alternative strategies that underline the importance of allowing children to make their own mistakes and develop the resilience, resourcefulness, and inner determination necessary for success.Relevant to parents of toddlers as well as of twentysomethings--and of special value to parents of teens--this book is a rallying cry for those who wish to ensure that the next generation can take charge