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Questions to ask a teenager to start an important conversation

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Re: Questions to ask a teenager to start an important conversation

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This article reaffirms the "liberal mom" stereorype: a parent who tries to achieve sincerity with their child after it has been lost. Le climate change is surely the issue parenting should be concerned with.

Imagine getting your sincere questions from a Top 10s tabloid post. "Ten signs he's into you".

Re: Questions to ask a teenager to start an important conversation

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I feel like teenage me might have answered most of these, with varying levels of honesty, but is any kid answering "What’s the best way for someone to lose their virginity?"? Yeah, don't ask that one.

I would feel ashamed and emberessed into the ground if that old crunk have asked me that one when I was a teen.

Re: Questions to ask a teenager to start an important conversation

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These seem so incincere, I can't put my finger on why. Just be interested in what they're interested in, same as how to connect with anyone. Let them tell you about things. Thereby establish you are interested in them as a person and are a good listener. And perhaps critically, don't start out with a view to change them - that requires a great deal of trust willingly placed on their behalf which you haven't earned and will never be able to force.

Re: Questions to ask a teenager to start an important conversation

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This article reaffirms the "liberal mom" stereorype: a parent who tries to achieve sincerity with their child after it has been lost. Le climate change is surely the issue parenting should be concerned with.

Imagine getting your sincere questions from a Top 10s tabloid post. "Ten signs he's into you".

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Re: Questions to ask a teenager to start an important conversation

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This article reaffirms the "liberal mom" stereorype: a parent who tries to achieve sincerity with their child after it has been lost. Le climate change is surely the issue parenting should be concerned with.

People regularly claim that kids are terrified of climate change to the point of psychological harm.

This comes from both the "climate change is a hoax" and "we're all going to die" extremes of the debate and everywhere in between.

So a parent seeking to check-in with their kids on the topic seems kind of obvious.

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