2022-11-07
31 分钟Pushkin.
I am 100% rooting for young people to live a life unfettered by over help.
This is college educator and mother, Julie Lith Gottheims.
We are depriving them of the very experiences however mundane they need to have in order to build a life,
to build an existence.
Julie is the author of How to Raise an Adult,
break free of the over-parenting trap and prepare your kid for success.
If you listened to part one of this two-part parenting episode,
which you really should,
you'll know that Julie is pretty evangelical about the harms of over-parenting.
But she also gets just how easy it is to do.
Lori, I get it a little bit too well, okay?
I'm this former Dean at Stanford, seeing a generation of over-parented kids,
air quotes, young adults in college, who realized to my great shame,
and I don't use that word lightly, that, oh no, I'm doing it to my own kids too.
Julie had observed the same disturbing patterns in her students at Stanford.
As I did in my own community at Yale,
she saw an entire generation that was suffering from unprecedented levels of depression and anxiety,
20-somethings who struggled in the face of seemingly simple setbacks, like a single bad test grade.
These were young people who seemed more dependent on their parents than any previous generation she'd worked with.