Lessons my Mom taught me – Part 5 of 23

Shouting (unless in an emergency) is never classy and a soft heart is easily diffused

It was the era of those old black dialup phones where your toe shouted if the phone dropped on it?

I was a teenage phone hogger.

What can I say? All those boys from Garden School and Sri Inai, they loved talking for hours and I helped them with their homework, I kid you not ….

It was a common event. We only had ONE house phone, no mobile phones then, so Mom would always remind us that the phone needed to be AVAILABLE in an emergency.

Did we listen?

Of course not ….

Mom’s first move : she moved the phone from stair landing to her bedroom so we could only use it when she wasn’t home.

Mom’s second move : she locked the phone with a padlock so we needed permission to call out but we quickly learnt how to tap the phone to dial out. Oops.

Mom’s third move : she locked her bedroom door whenever she was out with the phone INSIDE and passed the keys to the helper. But those doors were so easily hacked with a 10 cent coin.

One day, Mom came home SHOUTING at all of us.

I can’t remember exactly what my brothers had done but she was desperately trying to call home …… except that I was on it for hours again.

She yelled and yelled at all three of us and grounded all of us for the entire month. This meant no more club days, no more skateboarding for my brothers, no more phone.

To a teenager, being grounded… …for a month …… was akin to not having a mobile phone at all today for a month.

Life is over.

My brothers and I, we laid really low to avoid another nuclear explosion. Dad was hardly ever around to save us.

That day, I was a mesh in turmoil with guilt, worry, uncertainty and doom. I felt so bad that we had stressed Mom out when she was already not going through the best time.

Softening of the heart

In less than 2 days however, Mom was back to her usual cheerful self and had actually forgotten she had grounded us.

We didn’t stick around to remind her of course and quickly returned to our groove of fun and happy again.

I learnt that shouting only caused unnecessary terror and that Mom had such a soft heart that was easily bullied.

The moral of this story I learnt then was that I would have to be REALLY FIRM with my own kids one day or they would bully me easily too.

I am so sorry, Mom!!

#loveyoutothemoonandback #firmwithyourkids #beingclassy #love #kindness

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