How To Get Your Kid To Finally Grow Up
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Owen is about to graduate from high school and has no idea what he wants to do next. Owen doesn't seem worried, but his mom, Lisa, is freaking out. In this episode of How To!, we get help from Julie Lythcott-Haims, former Stanford dean and author of How to Raise an Adult. Julie regrets dragging her own son off to college before he was ready. Pushing your child into adulthood, she says, means asking the right questions — and then getting out of the way.
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| 0:39.9 | I made a little baggy of pasta with butter and parmesan cheese because I didn't want my son to be |
| 0:44.3 | hungry, right? And now he's a 20-year-old who's really outside of his comfort zone and things |
| 0:50.0 | are a little scary out there. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome to how to. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Charles Duhn. |
| 0:58.0 | Each week on this show, we help folks work through life's challenges, |
| 1:02.0 | like preparing for a big audition or deciding whether to have a baby. |
| 1:05.8 | And on today's episode, we have a problem that's very close to my own heart. |
| 1:09.7 | How much should you force your kids to finally grow up? |
| 1:13.3 | Our listener is a mom from Maryland who wants to know the best way to push her son into adulthood. |
| 1:19.6 | My name is Lisa. I'm Owen's mom. I'm a retired engineer, and now I study ceramics at the local community college. |
| 1:30.6 | Owen's 17 and a half, and he's just about to graduate from high school to start the rest of his life. |
| 1:36.5 | But he doesn't really seem to know what that should look like. |
| 1:41.1 | And we just don't know what to do next. |
| 1:45.1 | What do you mean? |
| 1:46.2 | Well, he's a good student. |
| 1:49.0 | He's good at everything, but he's really not that excited about any of it. |
| 1:53.7 | And he hasn't really made any plans for himself. |
| 1:57.7 | And I'd like to know as a parent how I can help him. |
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