A first taste of love, and, it’d, turned out, to be a huge mistake, and yet, this mother had, handled the situation quite well, and this can only happen in the western world, in the eastern countries, this, is very unlikely, translated…
The column of this week is very unique, it’s on an Asian special eds instructor from a U.S. midwestern city, C, she’d written on how one of her seventeen-year-old student’s adventures in love, and described the female student’s parents’ attitude toward the incident, as well as how the instructors, the school officials dealt with the matters. Although, the countries are operating differently, but, how the incident was handled, to the specific details, it’s something, we can, learn from.
Let’s call the girl “Ann”, her father is an American, her mother is Latin-American, because Ann is a gifted and talented student, she’d not worried her parents on anything at all, and, because of how much her parents trusted her, they’d, overlooked some small details of her life. At a specific function, Ann met up with a thirty-eight-year-old man, Mark, without a stable job, having never fallen in love before, Ann lost herself, in Mark’s seductive words as well as his charms too, two days after they’d met, Ann ran away with mark, moved in with him too, they were, hitting it hot, she’d not returned home, skipped her classes too, believed, that love is enough for her.
young and in love…photo from online…
It took about two months, for Ann to see Mark for who he really is: a drunk, and an addict, other than the methods he’d used, to pick up women, he’d not worked at all, and even gotten money from Ann to live off. Ann lived with him for two whole months, and finally, realized, that he wasn’t, what she loved. She’d left Mark completely, turned home to her parents, and admitted to them what she did was wrong. Ann’s mother, hadn’t had enough education, but clearly understood, how to, help her daughter out of the situations, toward Ann’s eloping with the man, she’d not blamed her, just told her, “We all make mistakes, especially when it came to love. Knowing you’re wrong and turning back around, just treat it like you’d, stepped on some dog poop, just clean up your shoes.”
After she’d returned to her family, Ann sought ways to return back into school, it was already, two months into the semester, the normal schools couldn’t make up the lost course load for Ann. It took her a long time, and finally found, the special education program that C taught in, which fitted the curricula to the children or adults with the difficulties in life, it’d allowed the teachers and students, to set up a schedule for learning, and fitted to the student’s schedules. In the careful instructions of C, by the second semester, Ann was able to, return, back to her regular high school, having gotten all caught up.
slowly, becoming, inseparable here, photo from online still…
I think, what C wanted to pass on was: giving the children who knew to turn back after they’d made a mistake, and not to put salt on their injuries, to make them suffer more.
So, this, is an American parent’s way of handling what her teenage daughter did, because, the teen was too young, was too eager to find love, and, she’d, fallen head first, and, gotten hurt, but, the mother was more than understanding, perhaps, she’d gone through similar things in her life, or that someone close to her had similar experiences, which gave her the empathies toward her own young, and, this mother did everything she could, to help her daughter, return back to the right tracks of life, and the young woman worked hard too.
Life, the Obstacle Course 