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One of the most popular topics many people talk about now is generation gap. “It’s like being bitten to death by ducks.” That’s how one mother described her constant squabbles with her fourteen-year-old daughter. And she is hardly alone in the experience. According to a poll, the relations between parents and teenagers are frequently marked by squabbling, nagging and arguing despite considerable love between them. What causes this verbal behavior and which party is at fault: the adolescent or the adult?

One of the major causes for the misunderstandings between them is that parents and children see almost everything in different perspectives. While children always complain that their parents are out of touch with modern ways, the parents criticize their children for the radical ways to deal with things. The gap seems unbridgeable.

Accounts of conflict between adolescents and their parents can also date back virtually as far as recorded history. But our predecess