How to Get Your Kids to Talk

Leave me alone!

Go away!

I'm busy!

It seems like whenever I want to talk to the kids, they don't want to. How can you get them to open up? Here are some phrases that work like magic to get their tongues wagging:
     "I'm on the phone."
     "What a great song! I haven't heard this on the radio in ages."
     "This is the worst headache I've ever had."