Does your teen share their day

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Does your 15 yr DD share their day with you? Mine says almost nothing about anything. Driving me slowly nuts. Is this normal?

Dd18 - yes pretty much every thought. She’s just started uni and I get constant updates, which tbh I love and feel lucky she communicates with us so much still.

dd15 - yes, but not quite as much as dd1. If I ask about her day I get an “it was ok” but if I don’t ask I tend to get an “omg, guess what happened today”.

Flits between not much to too much! Sometimes I hear stories about kids in our neighbourhood that give me sleepless nights. Other times I can get one word answers.

@Zonder , you mean not ask closed questions. If you ask 'How was your day?' you get 'Fine' as an answer. If you ask what they did you might get a few more words.

I meant what I said actually. At least as an opener. Sometimes asking an open question is just too much and it can be too hard to think of an answer so it can be easier to get a teen to answer closed questions to start a conversation, and then move on to open questions from there once they've given a tiny bit of information. Works for us.

Closed questions such as which was the least boring class today rather than how was your day.

@Zonder , I find the opposite.