What Our Teenage Daughters Really Want To Say When We Ask Them How They Are

I ask my daughter how she’s doing every single morning when she wakes up. She always replies with “fine” or “good.”

I ask her how her day was when I pick her up from school. She gives me the same “fine” or “good” regardless of the kind of day she’s had– there’s no way anyone has a good day every day for years in a row, especially during the teen years.

I smile and try not to press her for more until she had a chance to wake up or has been home from school for a bit and is able to decompress w...