Imagine: you’re at a store with your mother.
You both see another mother start to spank her child. Your mother intervenes,
and stops this mother from doing that. How would you feel?
The Bravest Deed
I’m shopping with
Mom
at the
supermarket
and we see a
woman
yelling at her
kid
who looks about
three or four.
She grabs the
girl’s arm
smacks her on the
bottom
BANG! BANG!
BANG! BANG!
about ten times, hard, then
CRACK!
across the girl’s face.
The girl is
screaming
and the lady gets
ready
to smack her
again
but all of a
sudden Mom
sort of steps
between them
and asks: Is
everything okay?
You’re having
a hard time,
looks like. I
remember…
Mom points at me,
laughing,
actually calms
the lady down,
with that girl
still sniffling,
and me standing
there hoping
no one will
notice my
trembling hands.
from Relatively Speaking:
Poems About Family
I had forgotten about this poem. I'm always talking to my kids about being upstanders. This poem is perfect for that!
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