For American parents of teens

Understand your teen's world.
Starting tonight.

+500 Slangs decoded +200 Conversation scripts +200 Trend explainers +50 Science briefs +50 Screen‑time tools

And a 10-minute Friday Reading written for your family. The school doesn't teach this — your pediatrician doesn't either.

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Practice one thing before bedtime.

500+ slangs

Practice the slang.

One flashcard at a time. Build your Cool-Parent GPA. Earn a printable certificate of fluency when you hit B+.

Start practicing → 200+ conversation scripts

Rehearse the talk.

Real-life moment, the version that closes the door, the version that opens it. Rehearse before the moment finds you.

Open the simulator → 200+ trend explainers

Scan what's hitting teens.

ON-RADAR — four risk patterns moving fast right now, with the 60-second conversation that protects yours.

See this week's radar →

Your map

Your map in My Teen’s World.

Four ways into one publication. Tap any leaf to start there.

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Home Root You are here

The map of everything. Pick a branch above.

Begin here

Start with the welcome reading.

Seven minutes on the adolescent brain — free, with no signup. Written in the same careful voice as every Friday Reading we send.

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Understand

What your teen is actually navigating online.

Two hundred plain-language explainers on the apps, trends, and language teens use today — alongside the developmental science behind each shift.

Browse 200+ trends → Slang glossary → The science →
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Practice

The words that close conversations — and the ones that open them.

Two hundred word-for-word dialogues for the moments that matter: the version that breaks down and the one that lands, side by side — drawn from real families and grounded in clinical practice.

Open dialogues → Case studies →
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Why this exists

We're parents — not a tech company.

My Teen's World was built by two parents — one a scientist, one a writer — who looked hard at the world teens are growing up in now, saw how fast it shifts and how alone parents feel in it, and went looking for one calm, trustworthy place that pulled it together. It didn't exist.

So we made it — from the research, not from panic: the slang decoded, the scripts written, the science put in plain English, and a Friday Reading shaped to your family.

  • Grounded in the science

    Every reading cites the research — acceptance & commitment, emotion coaching, the adolescent brain.

  • Your data stays yours

    We never sell. We never share. We never use the answers your family gives us to train anything outside your reading.

  • Two minutes a day, ten minutes on Friday

    A weekly tune-in for the parent who used to wing it. Practice the slang one card, rehearse the talk one scene, read the Friday Reading with coffee.

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A careful reading, written for your family.

Membership opens the full library and a customized Friday Reading, shaped by the answers you share with us — monthly on Pro, weekly on Max. Cancel anytime, no questions.

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