Short, practical emails from Selena and Maryanne. Your first one lands in a few minutes: what to do when every answer is "fine".
What to do when every question gets a one-word answer.
Why it's rarely about disrespect, and how to respond without a fight.
The five needs that sit under most teenage behaviour, and under yours too.
I honestly didn't think something so simple would work. But the first time I flipped his one-word answer, he actually paused and kept talking. For the first time in months, we had a laugh over pizza.
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