Eugenia Andrews: From screen time to talk time — how to engage your teen in conversation

Eugenia Andrews: From screen time to talk time — how to engage your teen in conversation

I’m the mother of a 15-year-old son. How can I get him to open up and talk when he spends all his free time in his room playing video games? He seems uninterested in talking with me or his dad.

The children grow and change, and with it also change their habits and tastes. Adolescence is a time full of challenges for them and, of course, for the parents, who are often lost for different reasons. One of them is the changes proper to the transformation of children into adolescents: mood changes, need to isolate themselves... and friends who become their new family, or at least they feel it. All this means that they want to make plans with…