Show #103 Hour 1 | September 26, 2015 | 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 in her book How to Raise An Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success.
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Julie Lythcott-Haims served as Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising for over a decade at Stanford University, where she received the Dinkelspiel Award for her contributions to the undergraduate experience. A mother of two teenagers, she has spoken and written widely on the phenomenon of helicopter parenting, and her work has appeared on TEDx talks and in “Forbes” and the “Chicago Tribune”. She is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco
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