Invitational Rhetoric between Parents and Adolescents: Strategies for Successful Communication

Positive family relationships in a digital age: Hearing the voice of young people

“…The findings expressed here suggest very positively, young people want their families to function well in a digital age, and they have a collective sense of responsibility that affects how they individually act within their family, and how they want other family members to function (Third et al, 2017). Insights provided by the participants strengthen previous literature valuing the voice of young people (Koch & Brandt, 2021; Pariera & Turner, 2020; Prelis & Delomez, 2017; Smithson & Jones, 2021; Third et al, 2017; Uprichard, 2008). The findings should prompt efforts to support all generations in how to understand, critique and navigate positive family relationships in the digital age.…”

“…The study found that the young people wanted their parents/carers to know their lives are very different to being a teenager from a previous generation, and identified that the default parent assumption was often that device use was negative (Johnson, 2009; Sikorska, 2020). Hence, they wanted their parents to understand their experiences and share an interest in what they were doing online, echoing Pariera and Turner's (2020) recommendation for exchanging perspectives to enable successful parent‐child communication. These young people used their devices for a range of purposes and they want to be trusted and respected in a sense they have the ability to make good choices about how much time they spend online, whom they interact with, and why they go online as they demonstrate increasing autonomy (Racz et al, 2017).…”

“…Many adults do not know how to reach out to cross the digital divide with the younger generation. As Pariera and Turner (2020) have highlighted, exchanging perspectives founded on respect and trust can bring about successful parent‐adolescent communication.…”

“…This qualitative research was founded on James and Prout's (2015) construction of the child as a 'human being', rather than as 'becoming a human', positioning the child and young person as someone from whom we can learn and as someone who has something to contribute. Influenced by youth-led participatory research (Prelis & Delomez, 2017;Smithson & Jones, 2021), we align with Pariera and Turner's (2020) explorative approach which identified contributions young people made to successful parent-child conversations. Their work was built on the premise of not trying to change opinions or 'persuade' but rather to exchange perspectives to increase understanding between young people and their parents.…”

A Study on Teaching College English Reading from the Perspective of Invitational Rhetoric in China

“…Since the introduction of invitational rhetoric in 1995, it has gained increasing attention in the American educational community, and various applied studies have emerged, such as studies on facilitating communication between teachers and students (Hicks-Goldston, 2011;Maher, 2002;Odartey, 2018), parents and children (Pariera & Turner, 2020), teachers and parents (Modesti, 2012) and invitational pedagogy (Kirtley, 2014;Novak & Bonine, 2009). Invitational rhetoric plays a meaningful role in communication, as well as in the medical (Make & Lauver, 2022) and financial (Bathurst & Galloway, 2018) fields.…”