When boys go silent
By age 14, my formerly sweet and chatty son was giving me the silent treatment. He uttered only the briefest of answers to questions and never asked any of his own. He rarely came out of his room. And when he did, he was sullen and hostile, if he spoke at all. In short, he was doing an excellent impression of every portrayal I鈥檇 ever seen of teenage boys who amassed weapons and subsequently went on murderous rampages. He scared me. Why do teen boys stop talking? Was his total silence an indicator that he was about to snap?
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