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Parenting a Teenager Who Shuts You Out
One of the harder experiences parents describe is having a child who used to tell them things and now tells them nothing. The door closes. Answers get shorter. Questions that used to start conversations now end them. And the harder you try to reach across, the further back they seem to go. Some of This Is Supposed to Happen Adolescence involves building a self that is separate from you. Privacy is part of the mechanism, not a rejection of you personally. That's worth holding
Cole VonNiessen, MC, RCC
May 222 min read
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