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Why Teens Open Up In The Car, According To Psychologists

Courtney Hale/Getty ImagesThere are plenty of things people “warn” you about as you head toward the teenage years with your kids. And while one of them is definitely the fact that teens are famous for one-or two-word responses to everything, I still wasn’t emotionally prepared for the transition from the oversharing stage of little kids to the teen era of apathetic shoulder shrugs and spending all day trying to get more than a grunt out of them.It’s the one reason I don’t mind that I stay running the roads between school and after-school activities: The car is like some magical wormhole where...