If bumper stickers were still a thing Adulting is Hard would be a bestseller. It's not that the challenges of adulthood have intensified, but rather, the parenting landscape has shifted. Overprotective tendencies now seem to outweigh the absenteeism of past generations. Is it possible for parents to empower their children to become independent adults?

To discover how parents can support young adults leaving the nest, Positive Psychology Podcast Host Lisa Cypers Kamen speaks with mentor, activist, and author Julie Lythcott-Haims. Julie is a New York Times bestselling author and former Stanford Dean of Freshman. She explores the role parents can play in raising empowered young adults and other reflections from her book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult.

Julie Lythcott-Haims — Adulting:

• The concept of transitioning to independence. {2:27}
• In her book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, Julie shares the benefits of the empowering tool that is loving oneself. {3:59}
• Gen Z has been raised to appreciate differences far more than previous generations. {9:43}
• Overprotective parents can cause anxiety in children launching into adulthood. {11:17}
• Your Turn: How to Be an Adult contains validation and hard truths for young adults leaving the nest. {19:03}
• How young adults can get out of neutral when leaving the nest. {26:16}

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About Lisa’s guest: 

Julie Lythcott-Haims holds degrees from Stanford, Harvard Law, and the California College of the Arts. She believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. 

She is a mentor, activist, and author of the New York Times bestseller How to Raise an Adult, the critically acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces, and Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, which has been called a “groundbreakingly frank” guide to adulthood.

“It was a game changer when I realized that I need to stop fixing.” - Lisa Cypers Kamen

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