Julie Lythcott-Haims is a New York Times bestselling author whose work delves into themes of parenting, American identity, and the complexities of growing up and into adulthood. Lythcott-Haims focuses on the practical and ethical dimensions of life, writing to inspire readers to reflect on their own life choices. Her writing is direct, provocative, and offers a fresh perspective on what it means to live a meaningful life.
Having tackled a far-reaching parenting crisis with her New York Times bestselling How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims is back with an equally powerful and persuasive book for the adult children of those hovering parents—and for everyone who struggles to be a grown-up in these challenging times—in Your Turn: How to Be an Adult...
"Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called microaggressions, in addition to blunt-force insults, can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. Real American expresses also, through Lythcott-Haims's path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered "the other."--Page 4 of cover
Drawing on her experience as Stanford University's dean of freshmen, the author, revealing the harms of over-parenting, offers practical strategies that stress the importance of allowing children to make their own mistakes and develop the resilience, resourcefulness and determination necessary to succeed