You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.

Young adults are struggling with, well, adulting.

More young adults are living at home with their parents now than at any time since the

Great Depression.

And in her 2022 talk from Ted X Rockville, business leader Tamika Montgomery shares how to

give kids the tools to live out their potential and also adapt to a changing world.

That's after a quick sponsor message.

How do we raise self-reliant kids who have initiative, who are resilient and who could

be problem solvers?

Kids who have the skills and the courage to step outside of their comfort zone and take

advantage of what life has to offer.

I'm a mom to these three boys and if you're a parent like me, you've probably asked yourself

those very same questions.

And while I'm sure that every caring parent wants those same things for their children,

I think we're going about it the wrong way.

We want our kids to be happy and successful.

So our instinct is to shield them from hurt and disappointment.

We worry about their self-esteem so we praise them for everything.

We are concerned about whether or not they fit in so we indulge them.

And we don't want them to fail so we step in and take over.

And we do all of this in an attempt to curate our perfect life for them.

But what we're really doing is raising kids who are afraid to take risks because they fear

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