Maybe it happened to your son: a friendly, chatty kid turned into a sullen, silent adolescent. What IS it with boys?
They require some special treatment, says psychologist Dr. Adam Cox.
He interviews young people for hundreds of hours each year, and he's got ideas for approaching young males in his book Cracking the Boy Code: How to Understand and Talk with Boys. Listen for ideas on how to listen, and on how to initiate discussion with someone who, on the outside, appears to want no such thing.