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Confessions of a Parenting Expert
with julie lythcott-haims
Our first May expert, Julie Lythcott-Haims has offered to share with our community the confessions of a parenting expert! How often to do we get to hear this side of the expert — the human side. This topic fits with what we are facing and dealing with these days. We are all facing something different and challenging times — and some days we feel we are not getting it right. That’s okay — we’re only human.
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JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS
Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult. Her TED Talk on the subject was one of the top talks of 2016, and in 2020 she became a regular correspondent with CBS This Morning on parenting. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience with racism and her journey toward self-acceptance. She wrote the foreword for Writing Memoir, a book of writing prompts developed by Julie and her colleagues at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto for those hungry to share their lived experiences. A fourth book, It’s Your Turn: The Real How-to on Adulting, will be out in April 2021.
Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts.
She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their young adults, and her mother.
