My 11yr old daughter lives a couple hours away, and unfortunately due to circumstances (please don't ask, I don't want to get into that), we don't see each other face-to-face that often. The way we filled in the gaps to keep up our relationship over the years has been through video chat. She used to love it, but over the last year or so, she's lost interest in it, and it's a struggle to maintain conversation with her on it. I've tried multiple things, but nothing seems to get us through more than a few minutes at best most the time.
When we spend time together in person, things are great. We laugh, play, and overall she has a blast, even to the extent where she's always sad when it comes time to go. So, our relationship itself is great, that's not the problem here. It's just for whatever reason, she doesn't like conversation on video chat anymore, and I don't know any way to make it more enjoyable for her other than to just not spend a whole lot of time on it.
I've tried conversations about her interests. She collects various slimes, plays games, and loves spending time with her two cousins. Even then, I usually get short answers from her, and she just doesn't engage a whole lot. I've opened up conversation to her, asking questions about what she's been up to, what her plans were for later that day, what she's been learning in school (which of course isn't an option now since it's summer), but nothing seems to get much of any conversation out of her.
Maybe there's just not much of anything I can do about it at this point in her life. But, if anyone else has dealt with this and worked through it, or knows of any useful suggestions of other things to try, I would greatly appreciate any help.