“You are saying that word wrong I don’t want you to go to school and say it wrong and I have to come out there” said my mother. How could I be pronouncing the word wrong when my grandmother always used the word “mines” instead of “mine.” Because I was never corrected I was shocked and appalled when my mother finally corrected me. My mother corrected me because “mines” took her back to when she was overseas at war. She was a protective mother that would have gone to my school at any time if my teacher would’ve done or said anything to me that my mother thought was disrespectful. I was relieved when she finally told me that I was saying the word wrong. The 2nd grade was easy for me because she corrected me. My mother was making sure that I didn’t
