Julie Lythcott-Haims
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English
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"In How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims draws on research, conversations with educators and employers, and her own insights as a mother and student dean to highlight the ways in which over-parenting harms children and their stressed-out parents She identifies types of helicopter parents and, while empathizing with parents' universal worries, offers practical alternative strategies that underline the importance of allowing children to make their...
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English
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"Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called microaggressions, in addition to blunt-force insults, can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp...
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Language
English
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Having tackled a far-reaching parenting crisis with her New York Times best-selling How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims is back with an equally powerful and persuasive audiobook for the adult children of those hovering parents - and for everyone who struggles to be a grown-up in these challenging times.
What does it mean to be a "grownup"? And how do we define success? For generations, the milestones were easy to pinpoint: college graduation, if...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Having tackled a far-reaching parenting crisis with her New York Times bestselling How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims is back with an equally powerful and persuasive book for the adult children of those hovering parents-and for everyone who struggles to be a grown-up in these challenging times"--