Clapbacks vs. Comebacks: A Try This Instead Special Edition

by Jasmine Starr

Working with teenagers will test your patience, your confidence, and your ability to keep a straight face when the disrespect feels way too personal. But what if there was a way to respond without reacting? To set limits without shutting down? To protect your peace and their potential?
In this special edition of the Try This Instead series, Jasmine Starr brings you the grown, grounded guide every educator, social worker, mentor, and youth advocate deserves. Through real-world scenarios, communication strategies, boundary-setting tools, and healing reflections, Clapbacks vs Comebacks helps you move from reaction to intention—without losing your authenticity or your softness.
Whether you’re being mocked in the hallway, met with silence in your office, or challenged in front of the whole class, this book reminds
You don’t have to match energy to hold power.
You don’t have to choose between love and limits.
You just need language, self-awareness, and a comeback that’s rooted in care.

40 pages, Paperback

Published April 21, 2025

About the author

I'm an author of BDSM themed erotica, I write series shorts because they are fun. When I'm not writing or reading erotica I love to travel. I'm a married homemaker living in the Northeast and taking this existence one day at a time.