MHO: Adolescent Interaction with Parents!

Reading a research piece about ‘Adolescent Interaction with parent’ has opened my eyes, I’ve learnt that many strategies are utilized in our daily communication in order to get what we want, yet we do not realize the fact that we are doing it…Sometimes, in life, we really have to step back to look at our self, we may learn more than we often do…below are the summary from the research piece I read, those are the strategies often employed by the adolescent…

1. Bargaining Strategies

· Money & Material Deals (e.g. I clean the house for a week, if you buy for me)

· Money & Money Deals (e.g. I pay half, you pay half, deal?)

· Reasoning (e.g. Quality vs. Price) (e.g. just pay a bit more can last even longer, why not?)

2. Persuasions Strategies

· Opinionates (e.g. all my friends laugh at me, and know it is an old shoe)

· Persistence (e.g. I want it for Christmas, yet its still 5 months away)

· Begging (e.g. please, please please, please…)

· Whining (e.g. high pitch voice to express their needs)

3. Emotional Strategies

· Anger (e.g. I want it)

· Pouting (e.g. run into the room and bang the door close)

· Sweet Talk (e.g. If I look good, you will be happy too)

· Guilt (e.g. you got to give me since you buy one for sister)

4. Request Strategies

· Demanding request (e.g. since you are going to grocery, get me a pair of Nike shoe please)

· Need request (e.g. I need the crayon to color my drawing)

· Want request (e.g. I want to have a pair of good shoe for my sprint competition)