While
waiting for my turn, I heard a commotion behind me. I didn’t want to be a nosy
parker but the noise was so loud that I could overhear exactly what they were
saying. It was a disagreement between a mother and a daughter and apparently,
the daughter had gotten a few shapes tattooed on her right shoulders and was
also caught smoking. Clearly, you could see that her mother was mad. Her mother
was chastising her openly in the public. She also demanded her daughter to
remove those tattoos at once. The nasty lecture, which obviously fell on deaf
ears, got her daughter so riled up and in no time at all, it had escalated into
an exchange of vulgarities and finger-pointing.
I
could see that the initial intention of her mother was meant to be good but her
approach (hmmm…) really need to be overhauled.
Food for thought
If you were her
mother, what would you do so that you could impose your idea (like you should
stop smoking) and at the same time, respect your child’s rights and freedoms?
