Editorial Standards

This page describes how the site is written so you can check whether it is being followed.

Sourcing

Every claim traces to a primary source and the link is on the page. Government agencies, professional bodies, peer-reviewed papers, court opinions, and service operators’ own sites. Not another blog, and not memory.

Where no reliable figure exists, the page says so. There is no trustworthy number for how long a teenage outburst lasts, no ranked list of what sets teenagers off, and no published rate for how often repayment arrangements collapse. Pages that get asked those questions say nobody has measured it, which is the true answer and more useful than a plausible invention.

A claim that is repeated everywhere still has to be checked. Several of the most quotable lines in this subject appear on almost every competing page and do not survive being looked up. The site maintains a written do-not-print list for exactly this reason, and it currently runs to more than two dozen entries.

Things this site will not print

• The ninety-second rule. It originates in a memoir, not a study. The nearest real measurement in this population found the shortest emotion averaged about half an hour.
• “The brain is not finished until twenty-five.” The agencies that study this publish a range, not an age, and individual variation dwarfs chronological age.
• That hitting a pillow helps, or the common gloss that the problem with it was rumination rather than the hitting. Hitting did not help in any condition tested and doing nothing beat it.
• That counting to ten makes anger worse. No source supports it.
• Any figure for how long an outburst lasts.
• Any ranked list of anger triggers by prevalence.

Dating and corrections

The checked date means what it says. It moves when someone re-reads the sources behind that page, not when a typo is fixed.

Corrections get made and dated. Where the substance changes, a note stays on the page. If something here is wrong, tell me and it will be fixed rather than quietly deleted.

The safety rules

The audience is parents of minors and the subject touches mental health, school discipline and law enforcement. Additional rules apply and they are not optional:

• Nothing here diagnoses anything. No page describes a cluster of behaviours in a way that invites you to conclude a condition, and no page names a disorder as an explanation. Where a diagnostic question is unavoidable, the page describes the process of getting an evaluation and links out.
• No page promises confidentiality on a third party’s behalf. Where an operator has said something exact about what happens to what you tell them, the page quotes and attributes it. Everywhere else the site teaches one question instead: what happens with what I tell you?
• Crisis details are copied from the research file, never typed from memory. One widely circulated crisis routing was discontinued in July 2025 and stale copy naming it is still in circulation, including at one point on the operator’s own site.
• No page recommends an irreversible step. Calling the police, pressing charges, removing a child from a school, residential placement. Each is described. None is recommended, because the consequences turn on facts this site cannot see.
• A worked example never models something the page advises against.

Structured data

Article, BreadcrumbList, Organization, ProfilePage and Person only. No FAQ or HowTo markup, no review or rating markup on the author’s own book, and no medical or health schema types anywhere, because the site does not diagnose and its markup should not imply otherwise.

The book connection

The site and the book are by the same person, disclosed in the footer of every page, on the about page and inline wherever the book appears.

Five of the twenty-five article and checklist pages carry it. It never appears on a page carrying crisis resources, never on a checklist, and never on a page about paying for something. Those last two exist to stop a parent being sold to, and putting an advertisement on them would be the same move the site was built to avoid.