Latest / The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi
Why Your Teen Won’t Talk to You (Do This Instead)
You ask how their day was. You get one word. You try to talk about something that matters and they either explode or disappear into their room. And you are standing there wondering what happened to the kid who used to tell you everything. Teen silence and shutdown is not rejection — it is neurology. The teenage brain is in the middle of a massive developmental reorganization that makes emotional regulation genuinely harder than it will ever be again, and most of the things parents instinctively do in those moments make the connection harder instead of easier. Samantha Straub is a licensed…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.