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LANTERN Dear Parents and Friends of Presentation, On Thursday, Feb. 25, Pres will be hosting a very exciting evening featuring Julie Lythcott-Haims--author of How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid For Success. This speaker is part of our Student Wellness Initiative, launched this year to focus on the underlying causes of the alarming increase in student mental health issues that we see in Silicon Valley and across the nation. I have read numerous books on this subject and found Lythcott-Haims’ book to be most helpful. As a parent raising kids in the high-pressure environment of Palo Alto and the former Dean of Freshmen at Stanford, Julie LythcottHaims knows the problem all too well. Both at Stanford and in her personal friendship circles, she noticed a startling rise of parental involvement in student lives. In a well-meaning effort to save their children from disappointment and protect them from the “dangers” in life, Lythcott-Haims believes parents have exerted too much control over their children's lives--beginning when they are very young and continuing into adulthood. The unintended consequence of this over-parenting is a generation of young adults who lack a strong sense of self and basic coping skills. As a result, they are poorly equipped to handle the demands of adult life.
Presentation High School Parent Newsletter | February 2016
At Presentation, it is our mission to work in partnership with you, our parents, because we believe the family is the primary educator. Like you, we want what is best for your daughters. To us, that means raising adults, not children. As soon as our students arrive on campus, they are given age-appropriate responsibilities, encouraged to communicate directly with teachers, fight their own battles and be resilient when the inevitable disappointments of life occur. Sadly, we are noticing a decline in our students’ ability to cope. It is our hope that this event featuring Lythcott-Haims will offer you a new set of tools in our shared goal of raising responsible, self-reliant, resilient young women. Lythcott-Haims’ book does not offer one magic solution, but it does give practical strategies to help young people grow up and become independent, resourceful and successful. I hope you mark your calendar and join us for this very important lecture and provocative discussion. The evening will begin in the gym at 7 p.m. Hope to see you there! Sincerely, Mary Miller | Principal
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