Michelle Huntington

It's such an easy way to, one, convey it because sometimes it's hard to actually say what you feel or you want to get across.

And then to be able to listen because so many times we don't listen with the intent to understand.

We listen with the intent to answer.

So set in that sort of format, you can take in the information that they need you to hear.

Yeah.

I can definitely, like, that is frustrating.

And yes, I have a teenage daughter.

He also does that to me.

But I suppose the way I was getting extremely frustrated and I realized it was my expectation that was the problem.

So I'm used to people responding, which I would call consideration and being, you know, the opposite of rude.

Whereas, yeah, they are not, even to each other, they do not, if they see it as read on their messaging, but they're not responded to, that in itself is an answer.

So if it's gone unread, you know, it doesn't have the two blue ticks, then they haven't seen it.

So they don't worry about it.

Whereas if it's been read, it's got the two blue ticks.

They they're like, oh, OK, well, obviously they don't agree.

And they have their own narrative in their head what that means.

And then they, you know, communicate next based on that.

No, no.

And I can understand the frustration.

Potentially, well, you know, rules, especially with the other generations coming through their resistance, not resistance to rules, but lack of how I suppose looking at it with my kids.