Personal Narrative: Crow Tastes Bitter
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Crow Tastes Bitter
I worked with one of the best guidance counselors who once said to me, “The problem with most parents is they try to do it in their spare time.” That impressionable quote has stuck with me as I easily supported her assertion as a teacher who encounters the toughest kids to motivate, to see the importance of self-investment (aka education and character building), have those part-time, emotionally uninvested parents.
I don’t have that kind of parent. When I was a teenager, I thought it sucked. My parents had to know where I was, who I was with, the names of their parents and what their parents were like, and where they lived! My mom was the driving force behind the demands on my And, if Mom didn’t approve of them, I couldn’t