Strategies to Help When Your Teen is Shutting Down

Something has shifted. Your successful, curious teen is hiding and shrinking. They feel less confident, less capable. And when you try to approach them about it? You get nothing.

So what do you do?

Moments like this tend to test the confidence in your parenting. Suddenly, there is pressure to fix what is going on with your child because you feel like you are losing control. And if you lose control, there is a whole list of scary things that jump into your mind about what could happen next.