TPP 248: Julie Lythcott-Haims Talks About Her New book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the new book "Your Turn: How to Be an Adult" about?
The uncertainty, the sense of I'm an amateur at this, all of that is completely normal. Everybody who went before you felt that way. That's okay. It doesn't mean you're not doing it.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber. In today's episode, I am bringing back to the podcast, the brilliant and talented author and speaker, Julie Lithcott-Hames. Julie last appeared on the podcast to talk about her game-changing book, How to Raise an Adult, written in response to the over-parenting trends she witnessed as a dean at Stanford University. Today, she's back to talk about her brand new and equally amazing book, Your Turn, How to Be an Adult. I had the opportunity to get an advanced copy, and I just have to say this book feels like a generous gift to adult and soon-to-be-adult humans.
It is so thorough, and I got so much out of it, both for myself and as a parent. I wanted to talk to Julie about this book, not just because I think it should be required reading for everyone, but also because of how powerfully inclusive it is. We talk about how important it was to Julie that this book should represent the whole spectrum of adult experiences, including neurodivergence, that it be both practical and normalizing, as well as some of the considerations that went into writing a how-to adult book in a rapidly changing world. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Oh, and I also encourage you all to read Julie's memoir, Real American, which examines racism through her experience as a Black and biracial person.
Just basically, don't miss out on anything Julie writes or creates for the world. Lastly, I want to give a quick shout out to Devin O'Brien and Sabrina Risk, two new supporters of the podcast. Thank you so much. By joining my Patreon campaign, you are helping to support the production expenses associated with making this show. That includes helping me pay my fabulous editor Donna, the hosting costs, creation of all the associated assets, and more. If you get a lot out of the show and would like to help cover the cost for making it, please join my Patreon campaign where you can sign up to make a monthly contribution as little as $2 a month. Just go to patreon.com slash tilt parenting. And now here is my conversation with Julie Lithcott-Hames.
Hey, Julie, welcome back to the podcast. Debbie, it's so great to be here. Thank you. I'm super excited. I know that we're one of the first conversations that you're doing as an interview for your new book, Your Turn How to Be an Adult. And I cannot wait to dive into this with you. And I actually want to start because I know a little bit about your process, but I want to share with my listeners a little bit about your journey for writing this book. So, you know, you wrote How to Raise an Adult and then you wrote Real American. And then this book I know you had, you know, you knew was going to be coming, but it wasn't an easy process for you, I think, getting into it. So how did you know you were going to write this and how did that unfold for you?
Well, to be frank, I didn't want to write it. My publisher asked me to write a sequel to my book on the harm of over parenting, how to raise an adult. And so we signed a contract for me to write a sequel to that book. But we didn't really talk about what either of us meant by a sequel to that book. My first conversation with my editor was one in which she said, OK, so now that we've signed the contract, let's talk. This is going to be a book for the parents of young adults. And I said, hold up. The author of a book on the harm of over-parenting is not going to perpetuate those harms by writing a book geared toward the parents of young adult children, as she was calling it. I just can't do that and sort of stand within my own integrity.
So I said this book must be squarely for young adults themselves. And I won that battle. I said their parents might read it and that would be fine.
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