Parenting Unfiltered: How to Raise Confident & Capable Adults with Julie Lythcott-Haims
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Cat & Nat
5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
As we watch so many of you pack your teens off for university we felt it was the perfect time to bring back this epside! As Dean at Stanford, Julie Lythcott-Haims witnessed firsthand the toll that overparenting takes—students who were anxious, depressed, and unprepared to handle life when things didn’t go their way. In this interview, she offers a powerful alternative: a path to raising kids who are truly self-sufficient. Julie is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult, the groundbreaking manifesto against helicopter parenting. To learn more about Julie and her books, visit julielythcotthaims.com or follow her on Instagram @jlythcotthaims.
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| 0:35.2 | You need to know your kid can do for themselves. |
| 0:39.4 | So provide all the love and the guidance, but make sure you're also teaching them to do for themselves, because if you don't, when you're dead and gone or |
| 0:44.7 | incapacitated, you'll have this bewildered, floundering human who's chronologically adult but can't do a |
| 0:50.8 | damn thing for themselves. |
| 1:01.3 | Hey guys, this is the Cat Nat parenting unfiltered podcast, |
| 1:05.0 | where we talk about all of the hot topics going on or some of the hot topics because, quite frankly, |
| 1:07.4 | it moves way too fast for any of us to even catch up with. |
| 1:10.4 | If you are not part of the common parent, that is the one-stop shop for easy, digestible, |
| 1:16.9 | digestible, there I got, let me see if I can get that out, digestible tools where they are sent |
| 1:22.9 | to your inbox so you can read them and carry on with your day. |
| 1:27.1 | We've made sure to make them quick and fast |
| 1:29.2 | and just something to put in your back pocket and build skills and knowledge as time goes on. |
| 1:34.3 | And we thought, you know, we do have an app where you can go and search topics that pertain to |
| 1:39.3 | at that moment. But we know parenting is a journey and we know it's a long journey and we know |
| 1:43.4 | that what is impacting you today might not be impacting you in a week from now. So to make it easy, we thought |
| 1:49.1 | let's teach and build skills through emails where you can just read them and say, huh, I'm going |
| 1:54.4 | through that. I want to read more. I'm not there yet, but it sounds interesting. But here's some |
| 1:59.3 | skills that I can take with me throughout |
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