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Family
Monosyllabic teenagers 24 Jul 2009
Harry Enfield as Kevin Patterson (aka "Kevin, the disgruntled teenager")
How do you get them to open up and talk?

Kevin The Teenager, Harry Enfield’s depiction of the monosyllabic adolescent, has firmly established itself as shorthand code among parents for what happens when your formerly chatty child one day stops talking to you and instead falls to reluctant grunting only. Help may be at hand; a mother of four teenagers has come up with an idea called FINK cards which she claims opens up and reinvigorates communication with teenagers around the dinner table. But can, and should, teenagers be made to talk if they really don’t want to?  Founder of FINK cards, Lisa Warner & Suzie Hayman, author of ‘Parenting your Teenager’ join Sheila McClennon to discuss.
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