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KEEPING UP

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New perspectives on mother-daughter relationships Helping my daughter with last minute school projects before the new term made this DesperateAngloHousewife realise that we are well and truly from different generations. However, recognising the generation gap and accepting the generation gap are two distinct paradigms... My daughter hit me with our differences this week....struggling over a book review in english, not her first language, she called me in to help out.  Her english teacher had luckily given the students a list of questions to guide them. Everything flowed until we came to this question,  " What is the writing style? "  She looked at me and said " What a wierd question, it's Times Roman probably size 12." At first, I will admit to being completely gobsmacked. Then I realised that "writing style" does not mean the same thing to her generation as it does to ours. A generation born to computers... And here comes the rant..