What do you do when your kid is getting older and no longer wants to talk to you?

Where you start to wonder, is this just normal tween behavior?

Or is there something concerning happening that I should be more on top of?

Today I'm talking to a mom who is very open about the struggle she's going through with her son.

Her son has always been quiet,

but he seems to have gotten more quiet,

and she's not sure whether she should let this stage be

or intervene?

So my older son is 11 and a half over the past I'd say a year or so he's just been getting more sort of

quiet and I have been looking for resources to help me figure out whether or not this is normal quiet.

And so I keep wishing someone could look inside our home and tell me that's not normal or that's normal because you know as a mom

you're the only one who sees your kid all day every day I'm, I'm getting a little emotional.

So yeah, just trying to figure out if he's okay,

really whether he is or isn't,

figure out next steps and what I should be doing for him.

So thank you for articulating that so clearly, so poignantly, I mean that and I mean that and I promise you never have to apologize for your

feelings with me and you don't also need to apologize for apologizing for your feelings so let me make

that clear as well you know I think at any stage of parenting we you know could be

very emotional when we think about things with our kids and certainly the like tween into teen

years are highly emotional years for a parent. I've been living that myself and so that is

completely normal. So, tell me a little bit more, maybe specifically what's going on that kind of gets you

into that, is this normal or not?

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