Most Recent
Authored by Me
My remarks at the Black Lives Matter March in Palo Alto, CA on June 6. (2020)
My review of Mikki Kendall’s bracing essay collection Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women a Movement Forgot, about the tendency of the mainstream feminist movement to overlook the needs of poor women and women of color, for the Washington Post. (2020)
My New York Times review of Imani Perry’s memoir Breathe: A Letter to My Sons, which exquisitely explores the grief and determination of Black mothers. (2019)
My piece on the uniqueness of GenZ in Pacific Standard. (2019)
My review of the Black Lives Matter memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele, for The Times Literary Supplement of London. (2018)
My piece in The Atlantic: Are Helicopter Parents Ruining a Generation? (2018)
My review of Jessica Lahey’s parenting book, The Gift of Failure, for The New York Times. (2015)
My piece in Slate on how overparenting contributes to mental health challenges in children. (2015)
PBS News Hour essay: Parents Beware the Cost of Over-helping Your Kids (2015)
Quoted
San Francisco Chronicle, Maybe Generation Z Can Help Us Heal (2020)
The New York Times: How to Raise an Anti-Racist Kid (2020)
A clip from my hourlong conversation with Spectrum News NY1 about talking to kids about race (2020)
Oprah Magazine: These Parents Finally Had Empty Nests—And Then Their Kids Came Home to Quarantine (2020)
The New York Times: How Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood (2019)
The New York Times: Young Adulthood in America: Children Are Grown, But Parenting Doesn’t Stop (2019)
The New York Times: When Mom Picks Out Your Apartment for You (2017)
Washingtonian: Millennials Are Now Getting Their Parents to Handle Their Divorces (2016)
Time: The Over-Parenting Trap: How to Avoid 'Checklisted' Childhoods and Raise Adults (2015)
Reviews
Interviews
Sway Them in Color Podcast: Finding Your Self-Worth in a Sea of Racism with Julie Lythcott-Haims (2020)
CNN: Former Dean Explains Low College Admission Rates (2019)
Shondaland: Julie Lythcott-Haims Gets Real About the College Cheating Scandal (2019)
Associated Press: Author Not Surprised by College Bribery Scandal (2019)
The Rumpus: From One World to the Next: Talking With Julie Lythcott-Haims (2019)
Common Threads: Julie Lythcott-Haims, Author, Real American (2018)
TED Radio Hour: Julie Lythcott-Haims: What’s the Harm in Overparenting (2018)
WBUR: Author Of Best-Selling Book On Parenthood Says Her Own Made Mistakes On Race (2017)
KQED: Julie Lythcott-Haims on Being a Real American and Growing Up Black (2017)
Publisher’s Weekly: Spotlight on Julie Lythcott-Haims (2017)
Your Teen: Q&A with Julie Lythcott-Haims: The Effects Of Overparenting (2017)
Forbes: When Anxious Parents Go Overboard, Julie Lythcott-Haims Has The Cure (2015)
CBS This Morning: Long-term Risks of Helicopter Parenting (2015)
Stanford Report: Lythcott-Haims Stepping Down as Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising (2012)
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