Have been watching this transition in them when they turned 16,17...........Son who was youngest to my daughter still believed I was Goddess on Mother Earth till then.If given to panic they'd just say, 'Çhill,mother'.
Once when my daughter's friend's mother visited me ,both girls were sitting on the edges of the chairs and gawked in silence as to what what we would say next.Who would imagine just a while ago,they would blindly just listen to us when we disciplined them.I do the same with my mother,though a lot mildly.Our generation did'nt know the words, 'chill', 'relax' to be used on parents.If the circumstances demanded or I talked a wee bit more ,they'd probably store us in a freezer the way they tell ask us to 'chill' .
These days I try and talk less literally,try to talk sense most of the time,lest I'm talked to and asked to 'chill'.
