HOW TO RAISE AN ADULT. Copyright © 2015 by Julie Lythcott-Haims. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Lythcott-Haims, Julie.
How to raise an adult: break free of the overparenting trap and prepare your kid for success / Julie Lythcott-Haims.—First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-62779-177-9 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-62779-178-6 (electronic book)
1. Parenting. 2. Parental overprotection. 3. Parent and child. I. Title.
HQ755.8.L97 2015
306.874—dc23
2014044394
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Dar Williams for permission to reprint an excerpt from her song “The One Who Knows,” copyright 2002 Burning Field Music (ASCAP), administered by Bug. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Information in Appendix A reprinted with permission from Harvard Law School, and diagram in Appendix B reprinted with permission from Teach for America.
The names and identifying characteristics of some persons described in this book have been changed.
e-ISBN 978-1-62779-178-6
First Edition: June 2015