I have 7 kids. My sons are 15, 12 and 10, and my daughters are 17, 16, 14 and 13. Even though I've been through the 'most troubling' stages of adolescence with my oldest 3, my youngest daughters are proving to be very different. They are both very introverted.
The 14 year old is obsessed with music and wants to start her own youtube channel to post music covers, and I want to support her but I am worried about her privacy and I am not sure if she should continue with this idea.
The 13 year old does not open up to me, although she does to her siblings. The 13 year old has told my 14 year old (who then told me, after worrying about it for 3 weeks) that she suffers from panic attacks, and is too scared to tell me about it. I want to talk to her about it, but I don't want her to be mad at her sister for telling me, and I don't want her to feel scared of talking to me.
I feel as if my girls are drifting apart from me, and I don't want to stop them from living their lives, but I also still want to have a say in what they do. How do I get them to talk to me without seeming pushy or making them annoyed?