Your kid has no idea what they want to do. That’s not the problem.
Eleven questions that get real answers out of your teenager
in one car ride, and what to listen for when they talk.
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You’ve asked. Probably more than once. And you got “I don’t know,” or a shrug, or “something that makes money,” and then you spent the rest of the night quietly wondering whether you should be worried.
You shouldn't be. Not about that, anyway.
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” is a terrible question.
You’re asking a teenager to pick from a list of jobs they have never watched a single person actually do. Of course they don’t know. They’re not being difficult. They’re being accurate.
But your kid has already spent fifteen years telling you who they are. What they lose track of time doing. What people come to them for. What they got good at without anybody making them. Nobody’s been writing it down.
This free guide is how you start.
Fifteen minutes. One car ride.
I’m Lindsay.
I spent years as a high school counselor, I’m an independent college counselor now, and I’m a mom of two boys, one in college and one in high school. I have asked every one of these questions at my own kitchen table, with mixed results.