Robin Fivush

So some parents, some families are very elaborative or collaborative.

So I'll give you an example.

It's a very simple example.

This is actually one of my favorite conversations.

It was between a mother and her eight-year-old child.

And they had gone to Callaway Gardens, which is a recreational, beautiful garden near here.

They'd been on a long bike trip.

And the child, I'll call her Rebecca, was riding on the handlebars of the mother's bike.

And the mother was a bit of a daredevil, and Rebecca was a little scared because her mother was kind of going a little wild.

And her mother is saying, you know, oh, it's so much fun, you know, rushing down those cobblestones.

And Rebecca was saying...

Yeah, I was, you know, I was a little scared.

And the mother, they both laugh.

So they're not laughing at Rebecca.

They're laughing together.

The mother says, yeah, you were a little scared.

I was, maybe I shouldn't have done that.

And then, you know, what else do you remember about it?

And Rebecca says, oh, I was getting so tired.

And, you know, I wanted to be home.