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Scenario

How simple games can reconnect parents with withdrawn teenagers

My teenager says board games are babyish but last night we played cards until midnight and laughed harder than we have in months and I saw glimpses of who she used to be.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Structured play creates a container for intimacy that bypasses the defended positions that have calcified between parent and adolescent.

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