What Time Is Noon?: Hilarious Texts, Ridiculous Feedback, and Not-So-Subtle Advice from Teenagers

A teen’s cringeworthy nightmare might well include a parent going viral on social media. To his daughter’s chagrin, the author of this book hosts The Leighton Show on his TikTok channel, which features funny stories, quotes, and text messages from teenagers (his own children and others). His book is a chuckle-out-loud compilation that contains charts, graphs, and silly quizzes that offer quick answers to busy parents who want to give the best response to their college-age child’s text within 15 seconds, like they expect. Parents who’ve experienced their child texting them while a call to them was still ringing, who’ve been accused of asking too many questions, or who’ve made the horrible mistake of (gasp) asking how their high schooler’s day went will find much to relate to in this book. Leighton cites the most common texts teens send to their parents—“I need food,” Come get me,” and “What’s the password”—any or all of which readers will have probably received in the past week or the past five minutes.