How to raise an adult

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1. bg4Jan 2019
   A great book, imho, on this very subject is: How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims. I can't believe the level of material and amount of work for my poor 4th grader. She's doing hours and hours of homework every night and she's 10. Talk about diminishing returns!

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168823-how-to-raise-an...

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2. heymijoNov 2017
   Julie Lythcott-Haims was a former Stanford Dean responsible for incoming freshmen students. From that position she likely collected many more data points than any of us on this topic, which led her to write a book called How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kids for Success [0]. I have not read the book but heard her on a podcast a few years back.

   This article has some key points in it that address the comments in this thread [1].

   Excerpt:

   "Working with the quote-unquote best and brightest, I was seeing more and more [students] who seemed less and less capable of doing the stuff of life. They were incredibly accomplished in the transcript and GPA sense but less with their own selves, evidenced by how frequently they communicated with a parent, texting multiple times a day, needing a parent to tell them what to do."

   [0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OO2LJS2/ref=as_li_tl?ie...

   [1] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-murphy-jr/want-to-raise-...?

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3. iovrthoughtthisOct 2015
   "Lythcott-Haims argues in her book “How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success.”"

   Here are some similar articles in suitably similar publications:

   http://time.com/3910020/the-over-parenting-trap-how-to-avoid...

   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-lythcotthaims/helicopter...

   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/books/review/how-to-raise-...

   http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-how-to...

   It reads like PR, focusing on one author and their opinion (expressed in a recently released book) rather than a spectrum of writers / researchers. This is unfortunate given the historical references to 'helicopter parenting' and other writing that has covered the issue.

   I'm not saying it wasn't an informative and interesting read, on the contrary, it was. I was merely pointing out the PR nature of the article.

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