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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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14 minute read
Published Aug 2, 2016
What you'll learn
A former dean from Stanford University has written a book about how to cut the umbilical cord that so many young people and parents are afraid to sever. As a parent herself, Lythcott-Haims is sympathetic with the plight, but argues that parents’ over-involvement in their kids’ lives is harming children’s passage into adulthood. One critic has aptly described this book as “the Blackhawk Down of helicopter parenting.”
Key insights
- 1 Helicopter parenting rose on the changing cultural winds of the 1980s.
- 2 Boomers changed the meaning of parenting, and we continue to live with their legacy.
- 3 Building your life around the statistically negligible chance of your child being kidnapped is no way to parent.
- 4 More than stellar test scores, our kids need life skills to be successful in life.
- 5 First we do things for our kids, then we do them with our kids, then our kids do those things with supervision, and then without.
- 6 Current parenting strategies are harming parents and kids alike.
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