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“You’re grounded!” For talking back about what was right I thought to myself, that doesn’t make sense? Standing up for what you think is right can be really hard to do and even harder when it’s your parents you have to stand up to. Maybe I was a little harsh when I was explaining my thoughts, or maybe my mom just didn’t want to deal with it. The point is, no matter who you talk to always be kind with tone. One day after a long boring day at school I came home ready to sleep. It’s five o’clock in the afternoon and my mom is just getting home from my brothers baseball practice when I hear something loud and angry calling my full name from the kitchen “Alexis Marie Harris, get your butt in here”. I get up slowly and unaware of how fast I was supposed to move in order to please that angry mother, I hear another call. I ignore it and continue to walk out into our kitchen where all of my school bags are being held in my mothers hands.

At this point I know what she is about to say, in fact she says it every day when she gets home. I walk calmly over to her and then grab my bags as dramatically as I could pulling her arm with them to show how much I did not care. That was a bad mistake on my part. Before I can fully get the bags into my arms and turn around she is already yelling in my face that I have disrespected her. After disrespecting my mother by grabbing my bags I figured, “what else could go wrong?”, and so I started yelling back. I believed that my school bags shouldn’t have to be left in my bedroom when I do my school work at the table, but my mother believed otherwise.

After countless attempts every day after school, my mother finally had enough of it. I was grounded. for the rest of the week, including the weekend. I had plans to hangout my friends that weekend and I was not about to let that argument end in mothers favor. The yelling escalated and I didn’t end up gaining anything from it. I learned in fact that when you just do what your mother asks instead of trying to argue that what you do is right you could waste two minutes moving your things, or you could waste a whole week being grounded for yelling and arguing about a bunch of school bags. So next time I know I just have to do what I’m told.

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