Don’t Freak Out! That advice seems so simple in theory, but if you have children – especially teens and tweens — it is pretty natural to react in a way that they interpret as ‘freaking out’, which shuts down lines of communication without you ever realizing it. I must have gotten 20 plus texts the other…
Deborah studies human interaction through conversation, this time attempting to peel back the layers of meaning that make up conversations between mothers and their teenage and older daughters. Tannen clarifies the ways in which mothers and daughters relate to each other verbally through direct conversation; indirect messages, or “metamessages”, compliments or insults disguised as judgment,…
