Hi, I am Marcus Oyelaran, and this is The Closed Door, a show about raising teenagers for people who are currently doing it and wondering what happened to the child who used to tell them everything. Today's episode is called Fine, Nothing, Okay, because those are the three words that have replaced conversation in a lot of homes, including mine. I am a school counsellor, I talk to teenagers for a living, and I promise you that silence is not the same as rejection. We will look at what the teenage brain is doing when it shuts the door, why the dinner-table questions fail, and the surprising places where my students actually open up. My son even agreed to be recorded, which cost me twenty dollars. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.