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Jessica Lahey

Jessica Lahey is the New York Times bestselling author of The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed and The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence. (April 2021)

She writes for The Washington Post, the New York Times, and The Atlantic.  She lives in Vermont with her husband and two sons. 

Recent Articles by Jessica

Porter

Parent/Child Relationship

Parenting Creative Children Towards Lofty (and Risky) Goals

Drinking in college

College Life

Are College and Drinking as Inextricably Linked as We Think?

When author Jessica Lahey's son began to look at colleges, she struggled to follow her best advice.

College Campus Visits

She Wrote the Book on Letting Kids Fail But Forgot Her Best Advice When Her Son Applied to College

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