Reviews for The distribution of the human blood groups, and other polymorphisms

The average rating for The distribution of the human blood groups, and other polymorphisms based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-11-27 00:00:00 Shane Darrigan I made it to page 119 of this book. I went in wanting to learn some techniques to break through the rut of typical mother-daughter quarreling patterns, instead I found a rehashing of why they happen. And a not particularly insightful one. It's not that the things Tannen is describing aren't true, they are just kind of obvious. There's a huge chapter explaining the concept that mothers and daughters tend to compare themselves to each other. WOW. And sometimes Tannen's explanations of the reasoning behind the extreme reactions of daughters to mothers and vice versa are less than satisfactory. At the very beginning she has an example of a mother telling her daughter that she likes her daughter's hair combed back. The daughter responds that she is wearing it down today. Her mother says "I just think it looks better the other way." Tannen goes on to say that there is a metamessage of criticism in the mother's response. I say, what's meta about it? That is plain criticism. Maybe I'm biased as a daughter, but I would have liked to see some discussion of how to approach the way that mothers use criticism AS caring and expect daughters to accept that and maybe offer ways to get past it. Instead she simply describes the behavior over and over.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-28 00:00:00 Heidi Schneeveis I don't know if I should count this as read or not. I listened to about 2/3 of it, but when it was due at the library I didn't care to finish so turned it in. It had some great insights into adult mother/daughter relationships, but I guess I was looking for something more applicable to my daughters and me now.