I recently read what is probably the best 11 pages about families and parenting that I’ve ever read. The pages below are from a book called “flow”, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (yes, a mouthful) and they explain the main reasons behind why teenagers begin to distance themselves from their families and introduces new insights into how to deal with this.11 pages of extremely useful information… enjoy: P.S: When the author talks about ‘psychic energy’ he means (to the best of my knowledge) mental energy/focus/concentration… psychic here being anything that the psyche partakes in. 

         Good stuff! AbdelRahman Mussa