If parents were able to build good relationship with there kids in the toddler and infant stage of there lives, such relationship continues throughout the teenage stage and adult stage. But parents build relationship more with their jobs than with their kids and when the kids start reacting to the excessive lack of attention in their teenage years, the parents will start complaining that the teenage stage is difficult and bla bla bla.... build relationship with your kids and watch them draw closer to you as they grow older