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$9.9 $15 In stock

Category: Card Game

Understanding and sympathy between the generations

This is a pack of cards that can break a log-jam of frustration and silence between generations with humour and curiosity.

Not many teenagers want to talk to their parents that much. Their reasons are numerous and often sensible; yet for parents, the silence can feel painful and mysterious. What happened to their once chatty little ones? What might teenagers truly want to tell their parents, if only there was the right opportunity? And what might parents want to tell their children in turn, if it didn’t generate an immediate wince or boredom?

Containing 52 questions that are playful and interesting, yet carefully designed to pierce through armour, they offer parents and their teenage children a rare chance to go beyond the usual unsatisfying exchanges and rediscover one another, in an atmosphere of tolerance and fun, as the complicated, intense yet loveable and deserving beings they really are.

52 cards | 91mm x 67mm

Customer Reviews (4.6 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Thomas ★★★★★

I expected eye-rolls, but the questions got my son talking about stuff he never brings up at dinner. The humour keeps it from feeling like a therapy session, which honestly is why it worked on him.

Zoe R. ★★★★★

My 15-year-old actually put her phone down for this, which I never thought I'd see. The questions are silly enough that nobody feels interrogated, but we still ended up talking for an hour.

Ryan U. ★★★★★

I pulled this out at dinner expecting eye rolls and instead we ended up arguing about who had it harder at 15. The cards that mix silly hypotheticals with the deeper ones are what did it, since nobody felt interrogated.