"This is the best thing of your life. Then when it's not, it just makes it double worse," Glennon says to Nick about freshman year in college. "All I want for you is for you to be who you are and what you are," his mom tells him before he goes off to college. 'I'll tell you that shit,' she adds as an afterthought. "'How to Raise an Adult' sounds like that's a very small request,'" writes Glennon on parents wanting their kids to be happy.