Linda Nguyen          

Journal Entry
5/28/13
                                                My Ignorant  Teenager  
                                           
            people always say Teenager is crazy and dangerous age. I think that is very truth because i was one of the crazy and dangerous teenage girls.
            I remember when i was a teenage girl. I was doing so many crazy and nonsense things. And one of the crazy thing is i was thinking to to escape from my family when I was about thirteen or fourteen year- old. I wanted to escape from my family because I thought that my parents they did not love me. They were always very strict and hard on me. I also thought that they loved and  care for my sisters and my brother more than me. I had to do the chores in the house and if my brother or sisters had an argue I was the one was blamed first. My parents blamed and scolded me for everything I did.
           Another crazy thing is I almost about to quit my school. One day I went home from school I saw my father was sitting on the sofa, and drinking his favored tea. I walked to him and stood in front of him. I said, "Father I want to quit school." He was surprised, but did not get mad. He asked me calmly, " Why do you want to quit school?" I told him because all of my classmates were wearing high- heel shoes to school except me. He stood up and said, "You are a ignorant girl. You wanting to quit school because you do not have high- heel shoes to wear to school." Then he told me that he was walking hundreds miles to school. He couldn't even have a old bicycle to ride, and sometimes he went to school with out breakfast, but he had never thought about to quit school.
         I understood what he trying to tell me, however I did not want to accept that. So the next day instead of going to school, I went to the field. I played at the field till the afternoon, then went home. I did that for three days.My parents did noticed that I wasn't at school. They believed that i was in school for the whole mornings. Then finally, my grandmother who found out that I was at the field instead of school. She asked me why I did not go to school. I told her that I want to have high- heels to wear to school, but my parents didn't want to buy for me. So she bough me a pair of high- heel shoes.
        Now I am a growing up woman, every time I think about my teenager. I can't believe that I was so ignorant and immature. It took me almost teen years to understand that my parents were strict and hard on me because they love me so much, and they wanted to train me to be a strong and independent person.
       Now I am a mother of two kids and my daughter will be a teenage girl soon. I am so afraid that she will do the similar things that I did before. Being a mother makes me more understand about my parents love. I have realized on one in this world love me and care for me like my parents do." My parents ere the only ones, who always be there for me all goods and bad. They love me and do things for me with out expect the return. Their love for me is unconditional. I appreciate all the things they did and do for me. I Love My Parents.