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How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
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Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured
Julie Lythcott-Haims • How to Raise an Adult — Julie Lythcott-Haims


Why did parenting change from preparing our kids for life to protecting them from life, which means they’re not prepared to live life on their own?
Julie Lythcott-Haims • How to Raise an Adult — Julie Lythcott-Haims
Others say this leads to a false sense of what it takes to excel, and a belief in entitlement to recognition and promotion that will dog them in the workplace years later.
Julie Lythcott-Haims • How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
wholeness isn’t something we acquire by stacking achievements or checking boxes or acquiring products or consumer goods. And I worry about this because I have two small children myself. They are five and six, and I’m thinking often about the world that they’re growing up in and what is that world telling them about who they should be and what succe... See more
Vivek Murthy — To Be a Healer
You are not special. You are not exceptional.
Contrary to what your u9 soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you... you’re nothing speci... See more
Contrary to what your u9 soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you... you’re nothing speci... See more
Bob Brown • Wellesley High grads told: "You're not special" - The Swellesley Report
