Ah! These Mothers....

I just tuned in this morning to this brand new 'virtual toy' I have "Blogging" to see what my friends had to say about my maiden posting last week.

Was mentally prepared for a nice quite half hour of cyber-surfing, when I was shocked to hear the loud vehemently angry voice of a woman saying "Don't you dare come back to my house unless you improve your attendance and grades.


I am ashamed you are my son" . Would have minded my own business and not bothered to find out the reason for this, if the source of the voice and the associated brisk steps had not come into my department staff room and settled itself in my adjacent chamber.



Inherent female qualities of curiosity filled me, and I risked a peek above my cubicle wall, at the adjacent chamber where a 'temper sensor meter' would have exploded cause it wouldn't be calibrated to handle the onslaught of two furious people, the mother of a student and his teaching faculty.The student was desperately trying to preserve any semblance of self-respect he had, by silently listening to the sharp allegation made by his faculty for having missed two classes and one test.Maybe he was hoping that if he remained silent, the screaming would stop, especially from his mother, as some of his classmates were already peeping into the staff room from the corridor.

I got reminded of something my mother told me when I was in high-school. She said--"When you no longer have to look down to see your child's face looking up at you, you should realise that he is an individual, with an idenity of his own, and treat him as a friend".

Would this mother have shouted such a harsh statement so blatantly and openly in front of her son's teacher and classmates had her mother told her this?

I wonder.....