Can you remember the first time your teen refused to do what you asked? Or you got the passive obedience treatment – “they told me to sit and not go anywhere. In my body I was sitting but my mind was walking towards the door”.
“I think the French make better sausages than the English and France is definitely a much interesting place to visit than England. For my eighteenth birthday, I would like a bug for a car – I really wish I would get that.” And so for the next one and half hour, she told me about her cuisine choices, holiday locations, movie interests and anything else that came along the way.