How To Talk To Your Parents So That They Will Listen – And Really Hear You

Help!  My Parents Don't Listen to Me!
I hear these comments from teens all the time:

My parents don't listen to me.  

My parents aren't interested in what I have to say.   My parents dictate what I can or cannot do.  (I don't want to play sports, piano, etc. but they say that I have to do [...:]