Freedom Quote by Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Send your kid to a summer camp focused on free play. One such place is Gever Tulley’s Tinkering School—a sleepover summer camp in Half…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Educators and psychologists have a mantra these days: No matter how hectic the schedules of your family members may be, make time to have…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg has written a comprehensive and perhaps definitive text on building resilience in children—Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Jessica Lahey, teacher, writer for The Atlantic and New York Times, and author of The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“As Denise Pope outlined in “Doing School,” kids today have tremendous pressure to simply get the work done—to “do school”—rather than to learn. They…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Read Hanna Rosin’s 2014 article “The Overprotected Kid”7 about one such place in the United Kingdom called “The Land” and think about how to…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“In 2000, a German researcher named Andreas Schleicher developed the Program for International Student Assessment test (PISA) to help nations determine whether their teenagers…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“That I expect them to break the rules and to climb up to the highest branch and saw it off behind them. I tell…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Our definition of neglect has stretched to prevent parents from determining when their children are ready for even a modest amount of autonomy, and…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Educator Jennifer Fox, author of Your Child’s Strengths: A Guide for Parents and Teachers, would agree. In her book she explains that you can…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Dweck’s website, mindsetonline.com, teaches a step-by-step approach to developing “growth mindset.”15”

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, Amanda Ripley explains that around the world the kids whose parents engaged…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims