Julie Lythcott-Haims is an author, speaker, teacher, and mentor. She is the best-selling author of How to Raise an Adult, which gave rise to the TED Talk, “How to Raise Successful Kids—Without Overparenting,” viewed almost five million times. She also wrote the prose poetry memoir Real American and Your Turn: How to Be an Adult. Lythcott-Haims was previously dean of freshmen and undergraduate advising and associate vice provost for undergraduate education at Stanford University. She’s a board member of Common Sense Media, Black Women’s Health Imperative, and Narrative magazine; a trustee of California College of the Arts; and an advisory board member of LeanIn.Org and Baldwin for the Arts. Her honors include the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award.
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There’s a mental health crisis plaguing America’s youth. The last decade saw major increases in adolescents who reported having a depressive episode, and “serious loneliness”...