How To Raise an Adult: An Evening with Julie Lythcott-Haims
Organization:
The Oshman Family JCC
Category:
Literary
Geographical Area:
San Jose
Start
Date:
6/13/2015
End Date:
6/13/2015
Start Time:
7:30 PM
End Time:
9:00 PM
Event
Info:
In the provocative manifesto How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success (Henry Holt on sale June 9, 2015), self-proclaimed "anti-Tiger Mom" and former Stanford University Dean of Freshmen Julie Lythcott-Haims explores how and why the hyper-attentive parenting, or helicopter parenting, trend has taken parents and their offspring hostage in this country, and exposes the real-life dangers that lie ahead for the kids who are raised this way, and for society at large.
Across a decade as Dean of Freshmen at Stanford, Lythcott-Haims noticed a deeply disturbing trend. Each year more and more parents brought their kids to college and then didn't leave, making themselves instantly available virtually if not in person. Each year also brought fewer and fewer students who seemed capable of making decisions and solving problems on their own. That so many seemingly accomplished students were so notably dependent on their parents left Lythcott-Haims concerned for the students, for their parents, and for the rest of us as well. Where will the next generation of leaders come from if everyone needs Mom and Dad to tell them what to do next?
How to Raise an Adult is full of cringe-worthy anecdotes of parental over-involvement gathered from Lythcott-Haims's observations and interviews with parents, teens, young adults, educators, school counselors, and employers-from the mother who calls the college admissions office impersonating her daughter, to the father forcing his daughter to study economics, and the mother who accompanies her child on a job interview.
With the empathy of a mother but the expectations of a highly successful student adviser, Lythcott-Haims exposes the dangers of the "checklisted childhood," "redshirting kindergarteners," and the "concierge parent," and takes down the current college admissions process and college rankings systems.
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