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Many parents describe overwhelm like this: "My teen isn’t lazy, they’re just stuck. "They shut down over small things. "Everything feels like too much." Here’s an important reframe: Overwhelm isn’t a character flaw. It’s a nervous system signal. Teens today are navigating: Academic pressure Social comparison Constant stimulation High expectations with little recovery time The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)  explains that teens often become overloa

Many parents tell us the same thing: “My teen is capable, but they don’t see it.” Today’s teens are navigating academic expectations, social comparison, and constant feedback often before they’ve built the internal skills to interpret it. Teen confidence, for many adolescents, becomes something fragile and conditional rather than steady and self-directed. But here’s an important reframe: Confidence doesn’t disappear in adolescence. It just hasn’t been trained yet. Confidence