High-achieving teenagers are often the hardest to read. Their success becomes the reason parents stop asking hard questions. This post names the signals hiding behind good grades and offers better questions to ask before the mask breaks.

Ten questions I'd ask every parent if dinner parties allowed honesty. Not about grades or behaviour — about trust, silence, shame, and fear. Built from 2,000 conversations with parents in 102 countries. These aren't comfortable questions. They're the ones worth sitting with before it's too late to ask them.