She’s Having Trouble Communicating With Her Girlfriend’s Daughter!
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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She wants to get to know her girlfriend's daughter better, but the words the #GenAlpha kid uses just don't compute! What advice do you have for Producer Keity?
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| 0:00.0 | It's a new day, a blank slate. |
| 0:03.3 | Your mind wanders as you think about your future and all its possibilities. |
| 0:07.9 | You want to find out what your potential career could be like. |
| 0:11.1 | So you decide to do a T-level qualification. |
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| 0:17.9 | a higher technical qualification or a higher apprenticeship. So go on. Make today your day. |
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| 0:32.5 | The Bert Show. I'm sure it was the same for my parents, although I can't really remember the slang being as pronounced as it is now. |
| 0:38.8 | But I know when my high school senior has a whole bunch of his friends over and they're talking, I get about every eighth word. |
| 0:45.1 | Skibbitty. |
| 0:45.9 | What are you even saying? |
| 0:48.6 | Right? |
| 0:49.4 | It's almost like a code that goes underneath the parents' radar, right? |
| 0:52.8 | And Katie's starting to go through this very same thing with her girlfriend's daughter, right? |
| 0:57.0 | Yes, I've never felt more my age until I started texting with a 12-year-old. |
| 1:02.2 | And I'm just trying to understand and walk this fine line of, okay, at what point do I stop trying to relate? |
| 1:09.7 | And that's the battle that I have because with my girlfriend's |
| 1:12.9 | daughter, when she texts, it's already shorthand text, right? It's not how are you? It's HR you. |
| 1:18.4 | Right. Right. And I'm not that person. I will text out like a full sentence. And so when we go back |
| 1:24.3 | and forth, I try to shorten it or I'll try to be like, yes, queen or period. |
| 1:28.6 | And all of that gets lost on her. |
| 1:31.3 | She is the skibbitty queen. |
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