Thanks for your message.. I had a look at some of the resource links ... the video How to Communicate Effectively with your Teenager was interesting... but it still requires the teenager to be present for the communication... mine refuses to talk to me at all... I've tried talking to him when in the car so he couldn't walk away but he just talks over the top of me saying "I don't care, I'm not interested, I'm not listening" and turns the music up in his earphones. The article "How to have a great conversation" is also good with the conversation starters... but if I asked my son "Is there something that you'd like some help with?"   He would say "no" and walk away. Every day when he gets home from school I ask him "how was your day?" "Anything interesting happen?" "What did you do at lunchtime?"  and all I get back is "ugh", "nup" and "nomuch".... Any ideas on what I can do to get him to want to talk, even a little bit of small talk would be nice.... ... View more

I could have written that post... !! Am having EXACTLY the same issues, except my son is 15.  I can't get him to speak to me about anything.  If I try to speak to him he yells at me and tells me to "f" off.... I don't know how to handle that.... I couldn't imagine ever speaking to my mother like that.... Am at my wits end trying to figure out why he is like that and how to turn him around .. he was such a lovely well mannered, polite, sociable child and now he is the exact opposite... I have obviously failed in the motherhood department... ... View more