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Julie Lythcott-Haims: An Analysis

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Sticking with your children might not be the best, for them. Julie Lythcott-Haims, born in Nigeria, that had presented on TED TALK with over 2,673,810 views and filmed on October of 2015, “How to raise successful kids without overparenting” Lythcott- Haims has explained that parents that are too attached to their kids would give their children too much stress and would put a list and a somewhat strict lifestyle, but it would only made it worse, making them free would be the prefered or best way to raise your children. The children should have more self-sufficiency and have them develop decision making skills. As this ties along, parents, to be more specific, parents that are middle to high class families that have expectations for their children. …show more content…
Personally I do agree. My mother has expectations for me to get a perfects job later in the future, and study something that has a high paying job, such as a doctor or some form of a engineer. Although they may seem plausible for me, I just won't engage myself towards the subject enough to enjoy it for the rest of my life. Something that I would have interest into would be business. Any kind. So I would have a larger variety of doors to go through, since business also has a lot of openings. Being able to get great to perfect grades (80%+) was also an expectation. Considering all the stress and conditions that I have, it would take a while or wouldn't happen. Hence getting the grades, it would also give a variety for universities, such as University of Toronto(UofT), York University (YorkU), or even Ryerson University (Ryerson). All of the universities has great courses for the medical field, engineering, and/or business. Having to do so, my mother still has those expectations, still “complaining” or nagging about my academics. If it were to slow down on the strictness, it would give me a larger space without the stress, giving me a broad idea of what to

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