invalidating each other “i don’t understand why ___” “i was just trying to___” “i will work on that” starts from a joke mom tries to have a moment to calm down and dad tries to keep pressing “ughh” “i am sorry that you feel ___” swear “i struggle with mental health” mom keeps provoking argument ends as if nothing went wrong “it’s like every time” “no— ughhhh” “i’m putting in more effort than you here” “why are you upset” “you do this all the time” “i’m not angry” “can you just listen” “that doesn’t work” mom snaps “okay but why ___” “you always try to ___” starts over taxes “it’s not about fault” dad keeps provoking indistinguishable yelling “yes, that’s what i said” egos get to their heads invalidating each other “i don’t understand why ___” “i was just trying to___” “i will work on that” starts from a joke mom tries to have a moment to calm down and dad tries to keep pressing “ughh” “i am sorry that you feel ___” swear “i struggle with mental health” mom keeps provoking argument ends as if nothing went wrong “it’s like every time” “no— ughhhh” “i’m putting in more effort than you here” “why are you upset” “you do this all the time” “i’m not angry” “can you just listen” “that doesn’t work” mom snaps “okay but why ___” “you always try to ___” starts over taxes “it’s not about fault” dad keeps provoking indistinguishable yelling “yes, that’s what i said” egos get to their heads
(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
B-invalidating each other
O-“i don’t understand why ___”
B-“i was just trying to___”
N-“i will work on that”
I-starts from a joke
I-mom tries to have a moment to calm down and dad tries to keep pressing
O-“ughh”
O-“i am sorry that you feel ___”
O-swear
I-“i struggle with mental health”
G-mom keeps provoking
G-argument ends as if nothing went wrong
G-“it’s like every time”
G-“no—ughhhh”
N-“i’m putting in more effort than you here”
O-“why are you upset”
N-“you do this all the time”
B-“i’m not angry”
B-“can you just listen”
G-“that doesn’t work”
B-mom snaps
I-“okay but why ___”
I-“you always try to ___”
G-starts over taxes
B-“it’s not about fault”
N-dad keeps provoking
O-indistinguishable yelling
N-“yes, that’s what i said”
I-egos get to their heads