What if the Weird Thing Works? Clues to What Your Kid Needs

Megan Saxelby spent 17 years in middle and high school classrooms, which means she's seen every eye roll, slammed door, and surprisingly profound hallway conversation adolescence has to offer. Now she runs Wild Feelings, handing parents a field guide to the wildest terrain of family life. She's built curriculum for bestselling author Rosalind Wiseman and #halfthestory, the world's leading digital wellness nonprofit, and studied dignity under Dr. Donna Hicks — then translated all of it into tools parents can actually use on a Tuesday night. Her mission: retire the doom-and-gloom teen narrative and replace it with what the research actually shows. Adolescence isn't a crisis to survive. It's a period of staggering potential, and you're going to love this journey.