“Kids are most interested in you when you are least interested in them. They choose the moment to talk when you are least available, because that means you’re also least emotional. Kids have to deal with their own fickle emotions, as well as the unpredictability of their classmates, all day long. It’s as exhausting for them as it would be for you. This is why they choose to open up when you seem the least emotionally invested in them: as you’re leaving the room, concentrating on an e-mail, or finally settling into your favorite show. The more interested and invested you seem in what they have to say, the less willing they are to say it.”