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Category: Julie Lythcott-Haims

Julie Lythcott-Haims

A sense of purpose is essential for achieving happiness and satisfaction in life.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

There is something that’s a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That’s what it means to become an adult.

independence, parenting

Julie Lythcott-Haims

The best predictor of success is a sense of resiliency, grit, capacity to fail and get up. If you’re prevented from feeling discomfort of failure, you have no sense of how to handle those things at all.

failiure, parenting

Julie Lythcott-Haims

We’re depriving our kids of the chance to do the work of life for themselves.

independence, parenting

Julie Lythcott-Haims

Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.

independence, parenting

Julie Lythcott-Haims

Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured.

failure, parenting, resilience

Julie Lythcott-Haims

We’re [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things.

authenticity, laughter, love, simple-life

Julie Lythcott-Haims

Happiness and self-confidence can be the by-products of other things, but they cannot really be goals unto themselves.

happiness, self-confidence

Julie Lythcott-Haims

But we should open our eyes to the many ways in which hypervigilance keeps them penned in from the more liberated life they deserve to live and that in turn would prepare them for adulthood.

freedom, independence, parenting

Julie Lythcott-Haims

When you intervene on behalf of your child, your child becomes the victim. You’re expressing the message ‘You’re incapable, you’re not sturdy enough to resolve this yourself, you need me to come in and take care of this for you.'” You are, in essence, disempowering your child.

freedom, independence, parenting

Julie Lythcott-Haims

What is shaping the way we dream? Yes we dream of our selves, of what we will become, but it’s the environment that tells us what is possible. I don’t think our dreams are limitless; they are bounded by the society we live in and its conception of what is respectable and good.

dreams, parenting