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Most parents I meet don't arrive worried that something is badly wrong. They arrive unsure. Their teenager has gone quieter, or shorter-tempered, or has stopped doing things they used to love — and they can't tell whether they're watching adolescence or something that needs support. That uncertainty is reasonable. The question isn't whether your teen is moody. It's whether what you're seeing is getting in the way of their life. What's Worth Paying Attention To A few patterns

The last few weeks of summer often bring a shift that parents notice before their child mentions anything. Sleep gets worse. Moods get shorter. Stomach aches appear with no clear cause. Back to school anxiety is common, and it looks different depending on age. What It Looks Like Younger children tend to show it physically and behaviourally — stomach aches, headaches, clinginess, difficulty separating in the morning, regression in habits that had settled. They often can't tell

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