class 10 started and so did the early maths tuition. i drive her on my office days. last year a drive like this was twenty minutes of friends, teachers, some song she wanted me to hear. this month she rests her head on the window and sleeps till we get there. not complaining exactly. she's tired and that's fair. just noticed today that i've been keeping the radio off in case she wakes up and wants to talk.
I can only speak as someone who was that sleeping teenager, not as a parent of one yet. My father did that drive for two years. I don't remember a single conversation from those mornings, but I do remember that he never turned the radio on, and that I noticed. It may be doing more than you think.
That matches what I see with my two, though they are much younger. They talk in the car because nobody has to look at anyone. Perhaps at this age the conversations move to a different slot rather than disappearing.
Ours moved to the evening, not the car. My 13 year old says nothing on the way to school but will talk for half an hour if I'm cutting fruit in the kitchen at 9 pm and not asking him anything 🙂
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9 pm is when she's back at maths. but i'll try being around without asking. she does come out for water around then
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We're in Nacharam too, and went through the class 10 version with my daughter last year. This summer she's started asking for lifts she doesn't strictly need, and talks the whole way. Class 10 mornings are just heavy. I wouldn't read too much into the silence this year.
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