My Mission
To help adults understand the next generation—and to help the next generation discover the confidence, discipline, and direction to become the people the future requires.
The Complete Teen Study Reset
The Homework Truce, featured here, is part of my new solution for tired parents - The Complete Teen Study Reset. It's three tested scripts that end the study battle tonight — plus the complete weekly system that keeps it ended. Built from many yaers inside real classrooms and real parent meetings.
112 pages. Instant download.
Welcome to The Smart Study System by Lourens Breytenbach
Innovative plans to solve problems in education
Teachers
more results in less timeTeachers don't have time. Yo hardly have time to read this!
Here's what I can help you with:
- Better teaching tools
- Discipline Recovery Plan
- Understanding the modern teenager
- No more conflict
- Decoding the stuck teen
Parents
more authority; fewer battlesParents can learn how to sort out the bad attitude that "some people" have at home.
We have tools for:
We have tools for:
- phone and screen addiction
- sleep and morning battles
- unmuting your silent teen
- learn what they don't say
- Understand what yhey DO say
Learners
less anxiety and better marksIt's not only about marks. We can sort that out with The Smart Study System. However, it is also about ...
- dealing with overwhelm and anxiety
- lack of energy and those pesky mood swings
- Beatin procrastination
- creating healthy routines
The Leaders
innovative training solutionsMany meetings are hard to facilitate - here are some communication skills that you can use for your own and others' benefit. It's simple - how you talk; the body language - it all plays small roles in a big play.
The daily battles don’t have to stay this hard.
Most parents are doing their best with teenagers who are pulling away, shutting down, or pushing back. You’re not failing. You’re just missing a few precise moves that change the temperature of the conversation.
20 Steps Up while Calming Yourself Down
gives you twenty quiet, high-leverage actions you can start using today.
- How to listen so they actually talk.
- How to hold the line without turning every moment into a fight.
- How to co-author rules they’ll actually follow.
- And how to stay calm when everything in you wants to react.
- No theory. No fluff.
- Just what works when you’re the adult in the room.
The Smart Study System
This site assists parents and teachers of struggling teenagers. And the learners themselves, too. We are in this together.
Every young person has abilities the world needs. Our responsibility is to help them develop these abilities before the world demands them.
We help them go from being frustrated and overwhelmed to becoming responsible, balanced, and motivated students.
This transformation allows you to nurture them into confident, enthusiastic young adults. And then success becomes inevitable.
The question
What if we stop asking: "How do we fix these kids?" and rather ask "How can I be an adult who recognises the potential behind the conflict and the silence?"
Learn how to
- reconnect with your teenage child
- strengthen old bonds
- talk and listen to one another
- set and achieve new goals
- make new rules we agree on
- develop a fresh set of study skills
- build their confidence
- creating harmony in the home
- help them to choose when to study
- turn academic battles into peaceful victories
What is the Smart Study System?
- Transformational Systems for Parents
Let me show you exactly how to get your child back on your side - Innovative Teaching Strategies
Find out what you can do differently to break negative patterns - Smart Learning Techniques
Cutting edge research shows kids how to save time and tears - Daily exercises and workbook notes
Keep track of progress - it's very satisfying to tick those boxes - No more Battles
Easy downloads and single-page Scripts help you to talk to each other
See the Plan
What are the actual tools?
We employ a mix of old-school downloads and high-tech (digital) instruments to make the experience personal and fun. Resources can be downloaded, saved, printed and shared. Sometimes writing on an ordinary worksheet is more effective than an over-stimulating device-based lesson.
Strictly controlled tasks and routines build confidence and peace of mind. Includes paper-based contracts and cooperation agreements.
Modern software for easy access to information and instructions. Highly interactive but controlled by strict privacy protocols and learner-safe platforms.
Self-paced, challenging, comprehensive and rewarding - these learning experiences can be done over and over. Certification included.
Comprehensive, downloadable, printable, customized and personal - learning resources that can be kept and shared.
Exclusive memberships to curated content that can be accessed and updated as the learning experience evolves. Available everywhere.
Nothing beats a good video or a soothing podcast - quality long-form content allows for purposeful transfer of valuable skills.