How to Actually Communicate with Gen Z

Every time I turn on my car blinker to change lanes, somebody passes me like I insulted their mother. Is that the way things should be? Of course not. But that's the way things are. And that's the same thing for when you give advice to your young adult. See, when you give advice to your young adult about what they should do, what their next steps should be, what they should be thinking of, what they should be planning. They take that as judgment. They take that as criticism. And they don't think that you trust them. And that's not at all the case. As parents, we do trust our kids, but we want to make it simpler for them. So why not give them the guidance? Why not give them the advice? It's because it's going to be met with resistance. And they're going to feel pressure. So how do we avoid this? It's very simple. We don't give the advice. We don't give it. What we do is we ask open-ended questions. And those usually start with the word what. So some of the questions could be, what is exciting to you in your life right now? What are you looking forward to? What would next steps look like? Questions like that prompt reflection. And when they reflect and they come up with their own answers, they have buy-in. And when they have buy-in, they own it and they're more likely to act on it. So that's really the key. You really want them to own it because when they feel that ownership, they're more likely to do it. So these are the types of conversations that I actually help parents go through because a lot of them don't know how to talk to their young adults and it's really easy to mess it up. So if this is of interest to you, please reach out to me for a coaching session and I'll see you in the next video. Thanks.