THE BOOK EVERY TEENAGER NEEDS TO READ

Why Your Parents Are Driving You Up the Wall and What To Do About It

'A wonderfully useful book, told with wit and wisdom' - Adam Kay, best-selling author of THIS IS GOING TO HURT 
 
"Get up or you'll miss the best part of the day!" 
 "You treat this place like a hotel." 
 "Can you just put that phone down for one minute?!" 
 
After years of reliable performance, has something recently gone wrong with your parents? 
Do you find yourself stressed out, arguing about the most ridiculous things? 
Is it like you're processing the same world with entirely different brains? 
 
Do you and your parents want to fix things? 
There are hundreds of books for them about how to deal with you. 
 
Now, for the first time, doctor of brains and international bestselling author, Dean Burnett has written a book for YOU to understand just what on earth is going on. 
 
Like, just WHY are your parents: 
 
- Obsessed with tidiness 
- Not letting you get enough sleep 
- Just generally not getting anything that's important to you! 
 
But don't worry. These are very normal parent malfunctions, and by understanding the science behind where they're coming from, you'll know exactly how to troubleshoot conflict when it occurs (and even fix it before it does). 
 
You'll never be able to remove arguments completely. But imagine what you'd be capable of if you weren't wasting all that time and energy arguing about tidying your room.

Dean Burnett has written the book I needed in my teens...It's too late for me, but parents and youths, save yourselves

A wonderfully useful book, told with Dean Burnett's trademark wit and wisdom

Adam Kay, best-selling author of THIS IS GOING TO HURT

A transformative book that could save many troubled teen-parent relationships

Alom Shaha, author of Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder

A light touch on a serious subject. Great for helping teenagers learn how to maintain good mental health through the tricky years of adolescence, and understand just why their parents are so annoying!

Dr Beth Ross-Gilles, Child Clinical Psychologist

Every kid should have a copy of this book (parents can read it in secret late at night)

Refreshingly frank, warm, honest and funny and really does relate to all the realities of the parent-teen relationship... Read this book if you're a teenager. If you know a teen, do them a favour and buy them a copy.

'A wonderfully useful book, told with Dean Burnett's trademark wit and wisdom' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt 
 
"Get up or you'll miss the best part of the day!" 
"You treat this place like a hotel." 
"Can you just put that phone down for one minute?!" 
 
Has something gone wrong with your parents? 
 
 There are hundreds of books for parents about how to deal with their teenagers. For the first time, neuroscientist and international bestselling author, Dean Burnett has written a book for YOU to understand just what on earth is going on. From why parents are obsessed with tidiness, to why they won't let you get enough sleep and generally why they don't seem to get anything, this guide covers all the major parental dramas. 
 
 imagine what you'd be capable of if you weren't wasting all that time and energy arguing about tidying your room.

Dean Burnett

The perfect book to unpack the science and tell you what REALLY matters!

An unexpectedly brilliant dive into many perspectives, facts and advice on the use of phones and devices

Dean Burnett is the first old person who understands phones

Eleven-year-old Dermot, quoted in The Times

I read Burnett’s book and immediately felt seen

'A wonderfully useful book, told with Dean Burnett's trademark wit and wisdom' - Adam Kay on Why Your Parents Are Driving You up the Wall“Can you get off your phone/ PS5/ Xbox!? NOW!” - Your parents (probably) 
I bet that you and your parents argue about phones.Maybe you want one, but your parents don’t agree? Or maybe you do have a phone, but your parents think you use it too much. Or even make you leave it downstairs at night when you want to scroll before sleep. 
 
Either way, the result is: arguments. Between you and your parents. About phones. 
 
Meet brain scientist and bestselling author Dean Burnett. He’ll show you why your parents are sometimes wrong about phones (and why, annoyingly, they can be a bit right), how you can both understand them a bit better and how you can stop arguing about them. You’ll learn about: 
<ul><li>Why turning off TikTok can be so hard</li><li>How video games can change your brain for the better</li><li>How Snapchat can make us sad (and lots of other complicated feelings)</li></ul> 
Because screens can be a good thing. And a bad thing. But they’re definitely not worth getting hung up about.

Dean Burnett

Praise for Why Your Parents Are Hung-Up on Your Phone and What To Do About It

The perfect book to unpack the science and tell you what REALLY matters!

An unexpectedly brilliant dive into many perspectives, facts and advice on the use of phones and devices

Dean Burnett is the first old person who understands phones

The perfect book to unpack the science and tell you what REALLY matters!

An unexpectedly brilliant dive into many perspectives, facts and advice on the use of phones and devices

Dean Burnett is the first old person who understands phones

The perfect book to unpack the science and tell you what REALLY matters!

An unexpectedly brilliant dive into many perspectives, facts and advice on the use of phones and devices

Dean Burnett is the first old person who understands phones

Books by Dean Burnett

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