Tag: family
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Beyond “Nothing”: How to Get Your Teen Talking

We’ve all been there. The kid gets in the car and you ask, “How was your day?”“Good.”“What did you learn?”“Nothing.” That can’t be right. Nothing? You really learned nothing all day? Nobody does nothing all day. And just like that, a small tear forms in the fabric of the relationship. You try to recover by…
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Are You Interruptible?

How often does your teenager ask you questions? And not just the “what’s for dinner?” kind, but the kind that open the door to real, meaningful conversations—the ones where you get a glimpse of their heart? That often, huh? It can be hard to have deeper level converstions with teenagers. They feel like different people…
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Help, I have a teenager!

I should confess something up front: I don’t have a teenager. I don’t have to negotiate curfews, decode cryptic text messages, or coax a sleepy adolescent out of bed on Saturday mornings. But I do spend my days surrounded by teens, and teaching them has become one of the best windows into what it means…