Parenting can be truly challenging especially in today’s society when parents and their children have to deal with various issues that can impact their lives in different ways. It’s a good thing that there are resources that are available for parents who would like to raise their kids into healthy, independent adults.
The book How to Raise an Adult provides valuable insights on how over-parenting can be harmful to both the children and their parents. Written by author Julie Lythcott-Haims, this books also offers practical strategies that will allow parents to help their children develop relevant traits such as resourcefulness, resiliency, and the inner determination to succeed.

It also underlines the importance of allowing children to make their own mistakes and how to identify the lessons that will help them become better adults. The author did not only provide her own insights as a mother and a student dean but also on intensive research and conversations with educators and other parents.

For parents who would like to make sure that their children have the traits and values that they need to handle the demands of adult life, then this book is a great source of information. How to Raise an Adult will be relevant and useful to parents of toddlers, teenagers and young adults.




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