28: Julie Lythcott-Haims - Moving Beyond Helicopter Parenting And Doing The Best For Your Kids

Julie Lythcott-Haims is the author of the New York Times best-selling book How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success. The book emerged from her decade as Stanford University’s Dean of Freshmen, where she was known for her fierce advocacy for young adults and received the university’s Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for creating “the” atmosphere that defines the undergraduate experience, and was also known for her fierce critique of the growing trend of parental involvement in the day-to-day lives of college students. Toward the end of her tenure as dean she began speaking and writing widely on the harm of helicopter parenting. How to Raise an Adult is being published in over two dozen countries, and gave rise to a TED talk that became one of the top TED Talks of 2016 as well as a sequel which will be out in 2018. In the meantime, her memoir on race, Real American, will be out in Fall 2017. Julie is a graduate of Stanford University, Harvard Law School, and California College of the Arts. She lives in Silicon Valley with her partner of over twenty five years, their two teenagers, and her mother. Julie will be speaking at an event in Toronto on September 26 on the topic of helicopter parenting. Click the link for more info: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lincwell-speaker-series-julie-lythcott-haims-tickets-37314958044?aff=es2 To find Julie on twitter: @DeanJulie And her website: http://www.howtoraiseanadult.com