Comments on: How to communicate with your teenager https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/ Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:57:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Jamie https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499884 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:57:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499884 My three year old already uses “because I said so” as her go-to response to any question using the word “why” that she doesn’t have an alternative answer for.

They grow up so fast! *sniff*

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499883 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:19:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499883 Scott: Well, those who study the paleolithic often do, yes!

]]> By: Scott M. https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499882 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:08:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499882 … Anthropologists study rocks ?

]]> By: The MadPanda, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499881 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:58:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499881 clamcyp, I’m doing my damndest to remember that feeling so that when my* Cub hits her teenage years I can at least do a better job of coping than my own parents did. (Hearing some of my father’s choicer comments coming out of my mouth is actually shudder-inducingly unpleasant.)

As it is, she’s bright enough and clever enough that I shall no doubt suffer a general barrage of comments on the stubborn stupidities of my generation over various obvious and clear-cut issues (namely anything that makes her future more challenging, from her point of view) so every bit of forewarned preparation will likely be necessary.

As for teenagerese…I have my own methods. I’ve been known to lapse into fragments of languages other than English and Elizabethan Modern English on occasion. Perhaps mutual confusion will help where yahoo-ese fails? (laugh)

The MadPanda, FCD

* ‘my’ here used as identification, not statement of ownership.

]]> By: csrster https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499880 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:54:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499880 When daughter no. 1 was little I tried to teach her to say “You don’t own me I didn’t ask to be born” because I figured we might as well get it out of the way early.

]]> By: clamcyp https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499879 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:01:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499879 Remember when you were sixteen and thought that your old man was an utter idiot? And then, when you were twenty-one, how you were amazed how much he’d learned in five years?

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499878 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:01:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499878 ROFLMAO

]]> By: where r u & when will u b home? https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499877 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:49:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499877 😀

minor tweak though:

4) lolz

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499876 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:46:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499876 Good point.

1) wtvr
2) …
3) fn
4) lol
5) wtf

]]> By: where r u & when will u b home? https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499875 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:43:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-to-communicate-with-your-t/#comment-499875 Talking? People still do that with teenagers?

We switched to texting.

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