Your teenager hasn’t stopped loving you. They’ve stopped feeling safe enough to show it.
The closed doors. The one-word answers. The eyes that won’t meet yours. You’ve tried everything — more questions, more rules, more lectures. And every attempt pushes them further away.
That’s the unforced error. Not a mistake born from bad intentions — but from an approach that no longer works. For over thirty years, tennis coach Paulo da Silva has guided elite junior athletes through the most intense pressure a young person can face. He’s watched families thrive under that pressure — and he’s watched them break. The difference was never talent. It was always the conversation.
