“Mom, please! Don’t make me do this!,” said Monica to her mother as she drove her to her high school.
Her mother was not sympathetic. “Maybe you’ll try harder next time,” she said.
Monica’s mother, Mary, had an interesting way of punishing her daughter when she did wrong. Instead of grounding her, she’d humiliate her in some way. She thought doing that would scare her out of making the same mistake again. Monica once came home past curfew, so Mary spent the next day with her at school. She sat with her in all her classes. She went with her daughter everywhere, even the bathroom and the locker room. Monica never missed curfew again.
Monica wasn’t doing well in school. She had gotten two F’s on her last report card in both Algebra and History. Mary felt that Monica was spending too much time with friends and guys and not enough time studying. This wasn’t the first time Monica had gotten an F, but this was the first Mary was doing something about it. She came up with something that she believed would force Monica to work harder, but Monica thought this was going too far.
They got to the school. Mary stopped right in front of the building where all the students were waiting to be let into the school. “We’re here. Time to get out of the car,” said Mary. Monica looked down at herself. “Please, let’s go back home. I’ll work harder. I promise,” she said.
“I’ve heard that before. You need motivation,” said Mary.
“Not this kind of motivation,” said Monica.
“Get out of the car, Monica.”
“I can’t go to school like this.”
“If you don’t get out of the car, I’ll drag you out.”
Monica knew she had no choice. She knew her mother would really drag her out of the car if she refused to get out. She looked down at her body again, picked up her book bag, and got out of the car.
Monica’s appearance quickly drew attention from the other students. “Goodbye. I love you,” said Mary as she drove off, leaving Monica standing on the sidewalk in front of everyone…
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