Unlike over accommodation, underaccommodation presents a great challenge when indulging in intergenerational communication. In underaccommodative communication, one is considered to be self-centered, hence unable to pay attention to another person’s communication needs (Williams, 2001). When interacting with someone, it is important that both parties take notice of each other. It is difficult for young people to converse with elderly family members because of their underaccommodative nature. This results in the unwillingness by most young people to spend time talking to elderly people such as their grandparents. When my sister lost her son at the beginning of this year, our maternal grandmother called her to offer her condolences. However,
