Communicate, not alienate

Entering your kids’ ‘monosyllabic zone’.

SOMEONE has said: “You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.” When your children were younger, they insisted on telling you about everything they’d done – usually several times over, and very loudly, too. But as they enter the teenage years, they often sever the lines of communications!