When she talks about people and feelings, the daughter is uninterested. Instead, her daughter wants to know how something works, and finds her mother hasn’t the foggiest notion or desire to know. As a result of their differences, the Athena daughter may treat her mother as an incompetent. One such mother noted that her daughter “was age ten going on thirty.” Her daughter’s slogan seemed to be, “Oh, mother, be practical!” This mother went on to say that “Sometimes my daughter makes me feel as if she were the adult, and I were a retarded child!”
