Throw out the checklisted childhood | Julie Lythcott-Haims | TEDxGunnHighSchool

[@seasons0123]

Thank you... I am a mom and the support you give the kids is awesome... I love that this is on KZbin!! It will help me support my children in this way!

[@LanguageLiftoff]

I would encourage each and every parent of a young millennial or iGen living in the Bay Area and similar communities to listen to this speech! Julie Lythcott-Haims' ideas are in the right direction and she has a clear understanding of what's best, most meaningful, and most supportive to our students. She is looking at the bigger picture -- not just these students as high school students, or as college students, or as graduate students, but looking at them as human beings in this society and world. Thank you for sharing your ideas, Julie, and for articulating them so beautifully.

[@scrmblr2]

Julie.....I can not begin to express my feelings about that talk. I am an High School Tech Ed teacher and there was not 1 point you mentioned that I did not agree with. I was so impressed with your speech, that I will be bringing it to the attention of my administrators. I support your train of thought 100% and hope it spreads exponentially across the globe.

[@erincurran8789]

This is part of why I became a life coach for teens and young adults!

[@atiyaphillip885]

I love your speech.... must say I have a one year old and I have already planned what i wanted her life to become but now that have changed. You made me rethink so many things. Thank u

[@BabyLoloify]

Where was this woman when I was growing up?!?

[@BabyLoloify]

Iskdjf.....you wish!!

[@bunnyrabbitshavehats]

As a therapist in the Bay Area. This is what I try to tell parents, but they aren't listening no matter how many kids end up in the hospital or in front of the cal Train.

[@jeremiahfernandez9161]

i wish i heard this when i was in high school

[@narumoiprachaasaisoradej1066]

Wonderful Speech! Our family loves you already.

[@philam64]

How can I reverse the damage done? It's to the point where a lack of success causes me to not love myself.

[@miriamjesse1628]

To some of those parents who are stressing their kids out I want to yell, "THERE"S MORE TO LIFE THAN COLLEGE!" Like, really. How many parents actually use their college degrees when they're parents? I know my mom doesn't at all.

[@alishaberrey5114]

This is why I'm homeschooling. Too much pressure.

[@KyanneSummer]

Really really thank you.

[@lalabi4026]

Great speech! Yeah, We are losing our humanity almost all value physical things more.

[@lalabi4026]

I am a young mother, will love my children unconditionally. Actually I love them all unconditionally but I may not show that unconditional love when I get angry soon after their bad behaviour and low marks.

[@champtech8755]

The problem is the intended audience of this speech is missing. She should’ve done her speaking at middle/high schools not to the bunch of adults

[@coppersense999]

She is talking to high school kids. And their parents probably do need to hear it too.

[@coppersense999]

She is great, an excellent mom of outstanding adults by now. Just smh to hear contradictory kool-aid fueled advice. It is unfair in light of reality to tell kids to go be the top 10% of overachieving, workaholics at a mid-level school so they can crush it at a 9-5, and in the next breath tell them to study what they love: art, philosophy, poetry, English, etc. Does not work that way. First gotta upgrade definition of "success".