Cut The Cringe

Your teenager is speaking English. You just don't understand a word of it.

Mid. Rizz. Delulu. Aura farming. No cap. Somewhere along the way, the language of your own home changed, and nobody told you.

Cut the Cringe decodes 88 words your teenager actually uses: what they mean, how they're used, and, most importantly, whether you should ever say them out loud. (You shouldn't.)

Every word comes with a Cringe Risk rating, from Low (you'll probably survive) to Never (do not, under any circumstances, attempt), plus a parental advisory for anyone tempted to join in.

Inside:

• The Essentials: the words you hear every day
• Fresh Off the Feed: the newest, strangest and fastest-dying
• Back from the Dead: old words with surprising new jobs (yes, Grandma said "bougie" first)
• Now Officially Cringe: the words you still use, and really shouldn't
• Test Yourself: a quiz, to be marked by your teenager

And at the very back, there's a page your teenager may want to cut out before you find it.

This book cannot make you cool. Nothing can. But it can minimise the damage.

Know the words. Say nothing. Stay nonchalant.

The perfect gift for the parent who just won't stop trying, and a funny stocking filler, Secret Santa or Mother's Day and Father's Day present from teenagers who have suffered enough.