Parents often feel frustrated when their children become adolescents.
All of a sudden you find you can't say the right thing anymore. You're charged with nagging, being intrusive, negative or worse. More than at any other time in a child's life, parents need to be able to communicate not only their love and respect for their child, but also their ideas, values and concerns. OK, so it's important to continue to communicate in a positive, open way, even with an emotionally prickly teen. That means stop cooking, working on the crossword puzzle, or watching the news out of the corner of your eye.