Modern Communication Is Essential to Healthy Family Relationships
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iStock/Thinkstock(LAWRENCE, Kan.) — While parents might complain that their kids are too involved with technology, their children might possibly have a bigger gripe that mom and dad don’t know much about today’s many modes of communication.
In that case University of Kansas’ Jennifer Schon happens to side with the younger generation. She says if parents really want to understand their kids better, they need to enhance their communication skills.
Upon asking grown children ages 18 to 29 how they share and exchange information with their folks using virtually everything from landlines to Snapchat, the respondents of a survey said their relationships grew stronger based on how many channels of communications were used.
Taking into account that some parents have a hard time communicating with their children, Schon contends that using social networks and other technologies can certainly help.
Meanwhile, when asked to pick the better communicator out of their parents, the majority said their moms, mainly because they were usually easier to get in contact with than their dear old dad.
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