Building the muscle of reliance in our children

Episode #23 Building the muscle of reliance in our children Today my guest is the brilliant Julie Lythcott-Haims.  Julie  believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult. Her TED Talk on the subject has more than 5 million views, and in 2020 she became a regular contributor with CBS This Morning on parenting. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, will be out in April 2021.   Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media , and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org , and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education , Global Citizen Year , The Writers Grotto , and Challenge Success . She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone . She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their young adults, and her mother.  Please follow her work on social media https://www.instagram.com/jlythcotthaims/ On the web at https://www.julielythcotthaims.com Click here for the link to her Ted Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyElHdaqkjo  I have so much gratitude for everyone who has been listening to the Joyfull Parenting Podcast and joining the community of supporters at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=40232525 ! If you haven’t already,  please subscribe to the podcast. It’s also super helpful to me if you rate it, review it and share it with others!  If you are looking  to work with me one-on-one as your parenting/caregivng coach you can do so  by clicking on this link with  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=40232525. You can also find me on   Facebook and IG @joyfullparenting.