Video games were not allowed during the school years because she said it was to much of a distraction. To this day I think that was overdoing it a little bit but I see where she was coming from. She didn’t want us to get distracted from our studies. When it came to hanging out with friends she was a lot more lenient. Once you got your school work done, you were allowed to go hangout with friends. She always made a point to know where we were or where we were going. However, I didn’t always follow this rule. There were many instances were I forgot to tell her where I was or where is was going and the usually resulted in me being grounded. For some reason I never leaned form my mistakes and my mom get me a cell phone in elementary school just so she could contact me whenever she needed to. I can understand why she was worried about me when I would let her know where I was but when you’re a kid, you don’t really think about that to …show more content…
When I got my permit when I was 15, I begged my mother to met me drive her car even though it was night out by the time she got home. Against her better judgment, she took me out driving in our neighborhood. The first thing I did when I started driving her car is floor it and to this day I have never herd my mother scream so loud. I though it was kind of funny but she thought otherwise. During my high school years, my mom continued to force it into my head that school was the most important thing in your life, but for my first two years of high school, I didn’t really care about school. I got horrible grades that she was never happy to see. I remember at one point my sophomore year she sat my down at the dinner table and gave me a long talk about what my future would be like if I continued to get bad grades and because of that talk, once my junior year hit, I was a straight A