I excel at making conversation with kids the same age as my daughter, but I’ve got little experience talking with preteens and teenagers, so the experience is always painful. I’m constantly asking questions about how school is going and other mundane parents-just-don’t-understand stuff like that. I can’t think of anything else to talk about!
This could totally be expanded into a full-length book. Well, maybe not full length but you could probably milk 120 pages or so out of it.