An entire generation is drowning in anxiety and depression at unprecedented levels. We didn't just fail to prevent this crisis—we engineered it.
From 2010 to 2020, teen depression doubled. Suicide became the second leading cause of death for young people. The most protected generation in history became the most psychologically fragile.
What went wrong?
Five cultural forces converged: over-parenting that eliminated independence, smartphones that destroyed real-world competence, boundary collapse that erased parent-child roles, therapy culture that pathologized normal struggle, and a generation of boys told they were toxic.
Engineered to Fail exposes how we created this epidemic—and provides the blueprint to reverse it.
Inside, you'll discover:
The Autonomy Ladder: age-appropriate independence from 5 to 18
Failure Fridays: how deliberate practice with setbacks builds strength
Language Swaps: stop pathologizing, start normalizing
The 90-Day Blueprint: a complete family transformation system
You can't protect children into resilience. You build it through graduated exposure to challenge.
The science is clear. The path forward is proven. Cultural change happens one family at a time.