★A hush-hush “level-up guide” slipped into your hand—written for anyone “not yet grown, no longer a child.”
★These aren’t “how-to-be-better” manuals; they’re invitations to “get better together.” No lecturing, just a slightly-older friend laying out every stumble and tear in plain language so you understand yourself—and everyone else.
★Crack any volume and you’ll smell the same anxiety your classmates wear; turn the page and find the exact antidote. Real-life cases you can step into, plus grab-and-go micro-skills.
★The answer books every teen actually needs: every confusion about parents, friends, yourself, and the wider world in one set. By the last page you’ll see “growing up” not as a solo boss fight but as a string of gentle counter-moves—toward parents, friends, the world, and yourself.
★Parent gold, too: see the digital-era struggles your kids face, decode the fireworks on both sides, and learn to talk and reconcile.

Series Introduction
Lately psychology has gone mainstream: celebrities open up about depression in vlogs, influencers unpack “toxic relationships” in 30-second clips, and TV characters get crowd-diagnosed in scrolling bullet comments. Peel off the tech veneer and adolescence is still the same journey—separation anxiety, identity formation, drawing boundaries—only the stage set has changed.
Ironically, modern schooling, in the name of “not falling behind at the starting line,” quietly trades childhood and free time for parental anxiety and ambition. Schedules swell, screen time lengthens, real conversation shrinks. Surprisingly, kids have sharpened their emotional radar: they spot gaslighting fast, put scare quotes around “it’s for your own good,” and even assign parents “psych homework.”
When parental authority is no longer the default, kids need a “stand-by adult” who doesn’t preach or take over. These books play that role—offering a quiet lounge with the door ajar and the light always on, where answers surface as you turn the pages.

The series includes 4 books:
-I'm So Done! How to Make Parents Press Pause
-You're Crossing the Line! How Not to Let Yourself Be Steamrolled
-Nobody Likes Me! When You Feel Abandoned by the World
-I Said No! Please Don’t Use “It’s for Your Own Good” to Guilt-Trip Me

Had enough of mom and dad’s endless nagging and bans? Feel like your life has been twisted into a nightmare by them? Time to end this—without losing yourself! In this lively, funny and meme-packed mini-book, journalist and mom-of-three Lyudmila Chirkova (two of whom are right in the middle of puberty) hands over every tactic in her arsenal: she helps you read your parents, handle your parents, and still stay you. She’s been through adolescence herself, so she knows exactly how it feels. Together we’ll rip open the “why-are-they-like-this” wrapper and learn how to coexist in peace. The goal is not to crown yourself king of the house, but to teach you—and them—how to share the same roof without losing your minds.

【Golden quotes】
- “Rules aren’t meant to crush you—they’re guardrails around a safety zone.”
- “We grown-ups just can’t master lying flat, slacking off, or enjoying life.”
- “We’re not anxious about you staring at your phone; we’re anxious—at least in our heads—that you’re flushing your life down the toilet. You could be memorizing English, learning Python, reading the books we never had time to read…”
- “Lay out your plans—and tell the truth—that’s how trust is built.”
- “Parents do love obedient, low-maintenance kids, even when they secretly know: too obedient and too low-maintenance don’t match real life; when you grow up the whole thing may collapse.”
- “Parents struggle to accept your choices because that equals admitting you’re growing up, no longer their little baby, and can make your own calls.”
- “Sometimes parents would gladly sell their soul to the devil just to have you hang out with them willingly for five minutes.”
- “In our culture a tattoo comes with an automatic debuff—no matter how gorgeous the sleeve or how delicate the Latin quote, it’s assumed you’ve done time on the wrong side of the tracks. Classic cognitive bias.”