Mother-Daughter Relationship
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My mother and I have always had a strong relationship, though it might seem otherwise to people who see us together because my mother is very different in public than she is in private. I used to wonder why this was so, but I never asked because I could sense that she would not respond well to the question. In private, we are very close. In public, she seems more distant. I long ago decided that one reason for this was because she worked as a schoolteacher, and I think she saw me in public not as her daughter but as someone the same age as her students. In a funny way, she did not want to be seen to be showing favoritism even to her own daughter. In any case, I got used to it and did not mind it once I did. I often pretended that we were strangers, or that I was a student following her through the marketplace, learning from her every step of the way. I don't think she had any idea that's what I was doing, but she did react as if she understood, for she would point things out to me, talk to me as if giving a lesson. "How many oranges would we have if I asked you to give me the square root of nine in oranges?" "Mother, I'm not sure but I think we would have to peel the fruit and start counting sections," I replied. I thought she would laugh but she would give me a stern look as if I was a naughty student overstepping propriety. I was more a walking example of her scholarship than her companion, daughter, and shopping assistant. She would then turn to me a
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od student even if my mother wasn't a teacher, but they would taunt me just the same: "Did you get a good grades on the test because your mother told you the answers?" Being a teacher's daughter gave me unwanted attention. I didn't know what my friends' mothers did all day, but they all knew what my mother was up to all the time.
As to the advantages, if you have a problem with your math, for instance, you can get some real help from someone who knows the answers. Of course, this did not mean I could be at all lazy, for my mother would never give me an answer but would show me how to find it myself. This might have seemed a little too much like working at the time, but it accustomed me to doing just that and so has helped me in the long run. We had a home full of dictionaries, encyclopedias, and all kinds of books. We read the newspaper together and shared our ideas. Learning at home was fun.
Even when I was very small, my mother would read to me, cuddling me in her lap and sharing her favorite tales. This aspect of being a teacher was wonderful, for it made her story telling alive and rich, and I saw my seat in her lap as the warm center of the world. It was the public teacher who was confusing to me because s
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Approximate Word count = 1767
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)
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