A Word to Parents and Teachers Reading Over a Shoulder

The teenage stress problem isn't a mystery, and it isn't a motivation problem. We ask 14- to 16-year-olds to navigate high-stakes exams, constant digital connectivity and relentless performance culture using nothing but willpower and platitudes. When they burn out, we blame their discipline. This book treats their exhaustion as what it is — a structural problem of attention pulled in too many directions — and gives them mechanics instead of moralising. The three daily protocols in Part Two take sixteen minutes a day between them, and the longest of the three asks only that a phone stays untouched. The one thing it asks of you: no lectures about screen time, and no "just don't worry". Those don't work, and your teenager already knows it.

To be explicit, since you are the one deciding whether to hand this over: it is general educational information about everyday stress and study habits, not individual medical or psychological advice, and not a substitute for it. It assumes ordinary school pressure. If you think what you are watching is more than that, the support page at the back lists where to go, and going there instead of here is the right call.