Communication Interview Essay

I interviewed my mom, Allena, and my dad, Billy. My mom teaches computers to sixth, seventh and eighth graders. Communication plays a very important role in teaching. Teaching middle school students requires speaking in front of anywhere between 25-35 kids at a time. She has to be confortable with speaking and has to have the ability to formulate her thoughts into coherent sentences so her students can complete assignments and tasks. She used to teach adults about computers as well. She mentioned that in an adult setting they are much excepting of the information that she is teaching and she enjoyed teaching adults over kids.
When she was about 30 years old she interviewed to be a fight attendant. In the interview they had about fifty to eighty

He said that “as time goes on there is more and more communication since there are phones that allow us to communicate to virtually anyone at any time in the day. More so now, there is a much higher demand for people…young people in particular to be able to easily speak to others.” I did not think of it that way but back in the 60’s and 70’s when my parents were teenagers, there was not as high of a demand for people who could communicate well. There was not texting like there is now and it was not as easy to call someone then either. Communication is so important; companies could not run properly without it. The tower of babble is a great example. Since they could not communicate effectively and properly and they did not understand each other and nothing got done as a result of that.
Often times I see conflicts between my mom and dad when they text each other. My dad does not fully understand what my mom means when she condenses a lengthy sentence down to three words. Then when he sends back a question mark she gets irritated because he “can’t use the context clues as to what it means… it’s not that hard.” Then later my dad is confused when my mom is talking about said sentence, or lack there of, because he never understood it in the first place and she never elaborated on it when he asked for and