How To Keep Them Talking To You And How to Hear What They’re Really Saying
Beyond effectiveness, there is another reason to maintain your connection with your teenager: It’s fun. Teenagers, for better and worse, are some of the most creative and fun people on the planet, and when you stay connected you, too, enjoy these aspects of your teenager; and in doing so, you regularly replenish your parenting batteries. Besides, sharing humor itself promotes connection. Or, as the humorist Victor Borge once said, “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”