The Calm Home Action Plan

Your teen is not rude. They are simply dysregulated.

High school is a pressure cooker. Between academic loads and social status, their brain spends all day in fight or flight mode. They get home with zero bandwidth left. They need to feel at rest. When you meet them with questions, an exhausted brain interprets that interest as a threat.

We need to optimize the teenage brain so it can self-regulate. When you fix the biology, the behavior follows.

This action plan lays out what to do when your teen starts lashing out on you, and how to prevent future situations like this (and no, it doesn't involve you being a soft parent).