The Number One Reason Why Your Child or Teen Doesn’t Talk to You!
4 min readOct 12, 2021
Do you know the single biggest reason why parents fail to get their child to talk to them? The answer is so simple — and so common.
And the scary part is, even if you try to gently ask your child how their day was, you can STILL be denied a good answer (think — “fine”).
How do I know these things?
Because I have lived through every part of this process myself as the mother of a 13 year-old girl.
Also, I am a child psychologist specializing with girls ages 12–18 and yet I still have made this error over and over again!
So, here’s the number 1 mistake every parent makes…
They talk instead of lisenting.
Let me tell you a quick story about how I saw this play out once…in my own life.
