Reply To: I found this lets discuss.

[tom sarbeck]

I might be able to explain family silence.
My ethnic German dad said almost nothing about his early years. My born-in-Germany mom said absolutely nothing about her early years. They stopped talk by their five children, my dad with a leather belt, my mom with ridicule. (All kinds of hell followed, which I will omit here.)
Decades after they died I learned the reason for their silence. Their ancestors, who’d been farmworkers in Germany, had been taught that talk interfered with work and might foreshadow a peasant uprising. Feudalism ended in their parts of Germany and they came to America.

I recovered and now laugh when I tell people, “I joined Toastmasters and haven’t stopped talking since then.”