When the bedroom door closes, this is the field manual.
For the mom of a 13-17-year-old who isn't talking the way they used to. 25 conversation scripts. 30 reset cards. 12 AI prompts that customize each script to your specific kid before you have the talk.
Don't knock. Sit on the floor outside. "i'm here. i'm not going anywhere. you don't have to come out."
Then wait. Five minutes. Ten. They'll open the door or they won't.
You still don't know what to say at 8am Wednesday morning.
You know about secure attachment. You've read Lansbury and Damour. The door still slammed at 11pm and the kitchen is silent in the morning. The framework doesn't tell you the words.
Built for the mom in the moment.
Married. Divorced. Co-parenting. Doesn't matter. If you've got a teenager and you're tired, you're who this is for.
Scripts for the moment, not theory for the bookshelf.
Four working pieces. Every other parenting book teaches frameworks. The Teen Years Field Manual gives you the exact words to say when the door slams at 11pm on a Tuesday.
Every parenting book teaches a framework. None of them give you the words.
Theory is the floor. The actual sentence you say at 8am Wednesday is the ceiling. The Teen Years Field Manual is the sentence.
Theory for the bookshelf
- Frameworks for what's happening in their brain.
- 300 pages of research you read at 2am and forget by morning.
- Generic tips you can't translate to your specific kid.
- Nothing for the 8am Wednesday after the slam.
Scripts + the AI engine that customizes them
- 25 scripts mapped to the actual moments.
- Reset cards for the 90 seconds after you yelled.
- 12 AI prompts that customize each script to YOUR kid.
- The opening line for 8am Wednesday, written.
"I wrote the first ten scripts at 4am after a year of slammed doors. I needed the words. I couldn't find them. So I wrote them."
Plain Hours publishes field manuals for the hard parenting years. We don't ship motivational frameworks. We ship the exact sentences. Built by parents who needed them first. Every script in this book has been used in a real conversation — some of them mine, some of them readers'.
Three steps. Have the talk before Friday.
Pick a script, customize it with Claude or ChatGPT, practice once, walk to their door and knock. Repeat for whichever hard conversation is in front of you this week.
The math on the Pro tier.
Priced as standalone tools, the components add up. Bought together, you pay less than one family therapy session.
Starter is $39. Bundle is $159. Same math, different tier. All one-time. Lifetime access.
Three tiers. One-time. No subscription.
Lifetime access. 30-day refund. No retention survey.
The field manual + every script + every prompt. Everything you need for the conversation in front of you this week.
- 60-page PDF field manual
- 25 conversation scripts
- 30 parent reset cards
- 12 AI co-parent prompts
- Section on the hard no
Starter plus the operating layer. The Notion behavior tracker. The mood log. What you actually need to run the system every week.
- Everything in Starter
- Notion CRM (4 views)
- Conversations Pipeline + Win Log
- Mood + sleep tracker
- Personal household use only
Pro plus the 13-page Repair workbook bonus, 4 video walk-throughs (ships within 30 days), and lifetime updates.
- Everything in Pro
- 13-page Repair workbook bonus
- 4 video walk-throughs (ships within 30 days)
- Lifetime updates
- First access to new scripts
3 scripts. In your inbox. Right now.
Get three of the 25 conversation scripts — The 11pm Bathroom Cry, The Silent Treatment, The Phones-At-Dinner negotiation — sent to your inbox in the next 60 seconds.
No spam. One welcome email + the 3 scripts. Unsubscribe anytime.
30 days. No questions. No retention survey.
Read it. Use it. If it didn't help you get one real conversation back with your teenager in the first 30 days, email and we refund. No forms. No friction. No "why are you leaving" survey. You're already tired.
— TeenYearsFieldWhy $89 instead of three more parenting books?
Because parenting books teach you frameworks. The Field Manual gives you the actual sentence to say at 8am Wednesday after the door slammed at 11pm Tuesday.
Real questions, direct answers.
Knock today.
25 scripts. 30 reset cards. 12 AI prompts. None of them work unless you walk to your teenager's door tonight.