Trying to shield your children from any possibility of harm can have lasting consequences

Helicopter Parenting: It’s Bad, Don’t Do It

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 15, 2015

Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising at Stanford University Julie Lythcott-Haims discusses the potential harms of helicopter parenting, and offers an alternate philosophy for raising preteens and teens to self-sufficient young adulthood. In How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, she highlights the ways in which overparenting harms children, their stressed-out parents, and society at large.

EVENT: Julie Lythcott-Haims will be speaking and signing books at the 92nd ST Y, July 16 at 7:00PM

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