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Podcast: The Stress Nanny with Lindsay Miller
Episode: Ep 190: Why Your Family Communication Style Creates Stress (And How To Fix It)
Description: Ever wish your teen would text more than “k,” while your paragraphs go unread? We dive into a simple framework that makes family communication clearer and calmer: six modes—sending, talking, meaning-making, tacit knowing, signaling, and advocacy—and how to switch between them without adding more stress. Our guest, Craig Mattson, professor of communication and author of Digital Overwhelm, brings research from modern workplaces into everyday parenting, showing how the same pressures and patterns play out at the dinner table, in the car, and over text.We unpack what each mode looks like at home: when to broadcas...