How are teenagers supposed to learn good conversational skills if the only conversational strategies they're exposed to are unsolicited advice, judgmentalism, and prying?
As if I didn't already have enough social skill problems, for a time when I was younger I quite genuinely thought that the unsolicited advice, judgmentalism and prying were actually how you have a conversation, because that constituted the critical mass of the conversations that people deigned to strike up with me.
So please, people who are in charge of or in contact with young people, converse with them like you'd want to be conversed with so they can learn how to have a proper conversation!
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