The Teenage Brain Woman
Understanding teenage minds and lives; how stress affects learning; how to live well with screens and social media; thriving through exams; the science of sleep; and the benefits of reading for pleasure. Dive into my website to book a talk, buy my unique teaching materials, explore my award-winning books or immerse yourself in fascinating human science.
The Teenage Brain Woman
Understanding teenage minds and lives; how stress affects learning; how to live well with screens and social media; and the benefits of reading for pleasure. Dive into my website to book a talk, buy my unique teaching materials, explore my award-winning books or immerse yourself in fascinating human science.
Who am I?
Announcing the winners!
Sorry it’s taken to long to announce the winners of my Antiviral Writing Competition but I was the victim of the competition’s success – nearly
My topics of expertise
Teenage brains
and lives
Inside the fascinating teenage brain ~ I bring you the science, explanations and reassurance
Wellbeing
and beating stress
Stress management, with intriguing insights into brain bandwidth and multi-tasking ~ For all ages, for life
The reading
brain
The science of reading and the benefits of reading for pleasure and “readaxation”
Life
online
A no-nonsense expert look at the negatives and positives of life online for teenagers and adults
In action
Teaching materials
My popular materials are used in schools all over the world to teach wellbeing and boost learning for life. Perpetual licences make them exceptional value.
Most recent articles
Announcing the winners!
Sorry it’s taken to long to announce the winners of my Antiviral Writing Competition but I was the victim of the competition’s success – nearly 60 entries, all of which
NEW Stress Well for Schools – special summer offer
I recently updated the popular Stress Well for Schools and I’m now relaunching it with an exciting offer: buy Stress Well for Schools by July 31st 2020 and get 40%
When the virus kills kindness
Although there are many acts of kindness, generosity and empathy during difficult times, there will also be many extra acts of nastiness, anger, hatred or their less harmful cousins, irritation
How strong is your empathy? #ReadForEmpathy
Tomorrow is Empathy Day. Most of us like to think of ourselves as empathetic. But is our empathy is as strong as we think? Are we perhaps quite bad at
Why do you read?
I often ask this question when I go into schools to talk about the point of reading for pleasure. Recently, the Learning Resource Manager (librarian) at Belmont Community School, Sophia
Screens and lockdown
The comments under the recent post about how to deal with screen addiction/over-use raised an interesting point which has come up in conversation a few times, captured in this remark:
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