"In How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims draws on research, conversations with educators and employers, and her own insights as a mother and student dean to highlight the ways in which over-parenting harms children and their stressed-out parents. She identifies types of helicopter parents and, while empathizing with parents' universal worries, offers practical alternative strategies that underline the importance of allowing children to make their...

Archer B. Helmsley wants an adventure. No, he needs an adventure. His grandparents were famous explorers . . . until they got stuck on an iceberg. Now Archer's mother barely lets him out of the house. As if that would stop a true Helmsley. Archer enlists Adelaide, the girl who, according to rumor, lost her leg to a crocodile, and Oliver, the boy next door, to help him rescue his grandparents. The Doldrums whisks us off on an adventure full of sly...

Do you sometimes feel as if you are living your life to please others? Do you give other people the benefit of the doubt but second-guess yourself? Do you struggle with perfectionism, anxiety, lack of confidence, emotional emptiness, or eating disorders? In your intimate relationships, have you found it difficult to get close without losing your sense of self? If so, you may be among the fifteen million adults in the United States who were raised...

Dr. Malhotra believes he is simply a protective parent, while his daughter Ria believes he's simply possessive. All is well till Aryan walks into their lives. He is all that Ria's father abhors - wild, unpredictible, overpowering and obsessive.

Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers, educators, and employers, and on her own insights as a mother and as a student dean to highlight the ways in which overparenting harms children, their stressed out parents, and society at large. While empathizing with the parental hopes and, especially, fears that lead to overhelping, She offers practical alternative strategies that underline the importance of allowing...

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.

Drawing on their renowned research, two clinical psychologists show parents how to guide their teens effectively toward responsible independence while still being involved in their children's lives.