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When parent-child relationships lose their conspiratorial closeness

My teenage kids and I used to have this running commentary about weird people we'd see in public and shared looks about absurd situations, but now they act like being seen with me is embarrassing and I don't know if this is normal growing up or if I've actually become uncool to them.

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The secret alliance that made you co-conspirators in finding life amusing has been disrupted by the serious business of adolescent identity formation.

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