Living and dealing with kids can be a difficult job these days. However, living and dealing with parents can be even _____. Since I became a junior high school student, I _____ that communication is very important. With any relationship, you need to let _____ people know your feelings. If you are not able to communicate, things will become bad. If you are mad at your parents and avoid _____ to them, it won’t help. If you look up the word “communication” in a dictionary, it will say “the exchange of ideas and information.” _____ a good relationship, you must improve communication skills. Let people know your feelings, even if it’s just by _____ a note. If you are trying to make your parents see something as you see it, tell them that you’ll listen to what they say, and ask them _____ to listen to you. Then they may understand you better. _____away only makes the situation worse.

Here is _____ example. One night, Sophie went to a street party with her friends. She knew she ______ be home by midnight after the fireworks, but she felt ______ would be rude of her to leave first. As a result, she got home late. Her parents were angry at first, but when Sophie explained ______ she was late, they weren’t so mad. Communication is the key ______ a good relationship.

Problems can only ______ with communication. So just keep it in mind: ______ you get into a situation like Sophie’s, tell your parents how you feel.

When shopping for clothes, my mom and I always disagree on what fits me well. To me, if it zips, it fits. However, my mom usually says I need a bigger _______ .

When I was in middle school, I wanted to dress _______ my friends, but my body size made it impossible. Every time when my mom told me _______ didn’t fit me or I needed a bigger one, all I heard was that I was too _______. That’s why we stopped shopping together.

This went on until I was going to get married and needed to find a wedding _______. Of course, I could buy it _______ . However, my mom is my favourite person to go out with, so the idea of looking for a wedding dress without her seemed quite _______ to me.

Then the day came. As I _______ a white dress, I saw tears in my mom’s eyes, “You look very _______ in it, my dear” she told me. Nothing could surprise me more than this.

In fact, this dress didn’t zip up at the back and I did need a bigger one, ________ my mother didn’t say that. She just told me she couldn’t ________ how beautiful I looked. At that moment, all those ________ experiences we had in the past were gone. We didn’t buy a dress that day. We decided to see more. This was what I would ________   think about before.

Finally, we found a ________ dress after a few weeks’ shopping trips. And during those few weeks, mom and I also found the perfect fit for our ________ relationship.

My name is Tim and I am 13 years old. My ________ take care of me. I love them and I know they love me. However, it’s ________ for them to understand me. My parents grew up ________ a different environment and my grandparents brought them up in an old way. Sometimes feel like my parents are ________ to bring me up in that way. They won’t ________ me go to a friend’s home to have fun. I think they are so unreasonable. And they even won’t make me hang out with a friend ________ they don’t know the friend’s parents. It’s really embarrassing (令人难堪的) when I tell my friend that I can’t ________ him to have fun.

Last week, I found my parents reading my ________. I told them they did the wrong thing, but they said it was not a ________. They don’t think that I should keep anything to ________. I must tell them everything. I tried to ________ them, but they didn’t want to listen. It gave me a feeling that they didn’t want to understand me, so I said ________ then. I tried to talk with my best friend, but his parents are similar to ________. He is upset, too. It’s impossible to get useful ________ from him. I’d like to have understanding parents and I hope they won’t see me as a little baby, but I ________ don’t know what I could do.