Who we are

Hi. We're Pouya & Hengameh.

Parents of two. Builders by trade. We sit in the space between teenagers and the parents who love them — and we built this site for everyone living in that gap.

Pouya and Hengameh with their family
Our family.
Our story

It started with what was missing.

Most of what's written for parents of teens is either fear or theory. What's missing — the thing every family really needs — is understanding.

Understanding the world a teenager actually lives in. Understanding why a teenager behaves the way they do. Understanding how to reach them before the moment gets away. That's what we set out to build — and the reason starts in our own lives, long before any of this was a website.

Hengameh's story

When Hengameh's younger brother was a teenager, he was navigating ADHD, ODD, and anxiety — all at once. Like most families, hers was doing the best they knew how. But the answers weren't always clear. Some days were confusing. Some behaviors were hard to read. Some moments were genuinely scary.

She wasn't watching from the sidelines. As his sister, she became part of the support system. She sat in on therapy sessions, learned alongside her parents, listened, worried, searched, and tried to understand what was really happening underneath the behavior.

Then the online world arrived.

Around that same time, dangerous internet trends like the Blue Whale Challenge were sweeping through families. For Hengameh, it wasn't a news story — it was personal. It made her see, fast, how quickly the digital world could reach a vulnerable teenager, and how unprepared most parents felt when something new, strange, or dangerous showed up on a screen.

That experience never left her.

Behind every difficult behavior, every emotional outburst, every risky choice, there's usually a young person who wants to be understood before they can be guided.

Pouya's story

For Pouya, it became personal when he became a father.

He'd spent years in science — an evidence-driven field where you solve hard problems carefully, methodically, one variable at a time. Parenting introduced a different kind of problem. Emotional. Fast-moving. Deeply human. Nothing controlled.

Even with two small kids of his own, he kept landing on the questions every parent of a teen faces somewhere around 11 PM:

  • How do we protect them without controlling them?
  • How do we understand their world when it changes faster than we can read about it?
  • How do we talk about social media, anxiety, friendships, body image, online pressure, risky trends — before something happens, not after?
  • How do we build the kind of trust where our kids actually come to us when something is wrong?
Pouya with his daughter at the Christmas tree
Pouya with our daughter.

What we kept noticing

Now we're parents ourselves, of two small kids — and we sit between two generations who too often can't quite hear each other. The more we looked, the clearer the same shape became.

Parents don't need more fear. They don't need judgment. They don't need another complicated parenting theory that sounds good in a book and falls apart at the dinner table.

What parents need is understanding — and the path to it made shorter, clearer, and a little more human.

So we built it.

My Teen's World

We built this for parents who care deeply and sometimes feel overwhelmed. Parents who are working, raising kids, managing money, juggling relationships, and trying to keep up with a world that changes faster every year.

We focus on the things modern families actually face: social media trends, online risks, anxiety, peer pressure, body image, school stress, and all the everyday moments where a parent quietly wonders, am I handling this the right way?

Pouya, Hengameh and the two kids on the couch
All of us.
Our mission

Make this world a better place by empowering the next generation.

The most efficient, lasting, and humane way to shape what comes next is to invest in the people who are going to live it. That investment doesn't start at college. It starts now — in the teenage years, and in the relationship between a teen and the family who raises them.

Our objective

A simple chain, in order:

  1. Help parents understand their teen's world.
  2. Restore the connection — and where possible, make it deeper than it was before.
  3. Bring the family back into something that works.
  4. And help every person inside it flourish.
Why teenagers

Teenage years are the most sensitive years of a human life.

They are the years a young person quietly decides whether to contribute to the world around them or to step away from it. The years where anger accumulates — or where hope does. The years that shape every chapter after.

That's why we do this. That's why this site exists.

Understanding is the key. Stronger understanding creates stronger families.

Doors are open

Want to build this with us?

We're builders, not gatekeepers. This work is bigger than two people, and we know it. If you're a parent with a story worth telling, a writer, a therapist, a researcher, a teacher, a school counselor, a teen who wants to be heard — we'd genuinely love to hear from you.

Some of the best things on this site started as a single email.

admin@myteensworld.com

A little about us

The short version.

Pouya Mehrkesh

Pouya Mehrkesh

A scientist by training and a father of two. Years of working in a careful, evidence-driven field shaped how I think about parenting — read the research, talk to the experts, and then translate it into something you can actually use tonight.

Hengameh Bahadori

Hengameh Bahadori

B.A., Business Administration — University of New Hampshire. Logistics Specialist by day and a mother of two young children. On our team, I handle the planning, the writing, and the social side — bringing strategy together with the real, lived experience of modern parenting.

Find us

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How we work

Six promises.

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