Growing up means learning how to manage more of your life on your own—but most teens are never actually taught how to do that. Planning your time, staying on track, handling responsibilities, and figuring out why things sometimes feel overwhelming are all skills, and skills can be learned.

The Teen Workbook is designed to help you understand how your brain works, why certain tasks feel harder than they should, and how to start making practical changes that help you succeed. Instead of guessing your way through schoolwork, chores, and daily responsibilities, this workbook walks you through simple systems that help you see what needs to happen, track your progress, and make adjustments when things don’t go as planned.

Each chapter pairs with the parent guide and includes hands-on worksheets that help your teen notice patterns in their habits, understand how their environment affects their focus, and experiment with systems that make life run more smoothly. The goal is learning how to build skills that help you take ownership of their responsibilities over time. Because independence isn’t something teens expected to figure out alone. It’s something they learn step by step.

This workbook is designed to be used alongside Building Independence: A Parent’s Workbook. Parents and teens work through the material together, using the structure in the parent book and the exercises in the teen workbook to guide conversations and put new systems into practice at home. 247 pages.