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Personal Narrative: Some Adults Are Hard To Make Listen

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Speak Essay Adults are hard to talk to but even harder to make listen. Some adults listen to what I have to say, like my teachers, and some don’t, particularly my parents and coaches. Usually my parents don’t listen to what I have to say.For example, when I don’t do what they say right when they say it because I was doing something else. I will try to explain that I was finishing what I was doing before, and about to do what they told me, and finishing up will take two seconds, but they still get mad because I didn’t do it what they wanted soon enough. Another situation would be anything to do with my real dad. He lives in Tennessee and my mom is remarried but my dad has been giving us lots of trouble that has led to my step dad adopting me. Naturally, I have mixed emotions on the subject, but anytime I try and talk about it to my parents they either get all defensive or offended, or they try to give me advice and tell me how I’m supposed to feel. They never just listen. Lastly, they never listen to me about grades. My parents are hard on me about my grades, and I appreciate that for the most part, but they can get a little intense. I’ll admit that I have made mistakes like not turning things in on time, but when I do try, and end up getting bad grades, I get in trouble and when I …show more content…

For example, when I don’t dress out because someone steals my shorts. I tried to explain to him that my shorts were stolen but i still get points taken off. Another example would be when this girl in my class phone got stolen. She told the PE teacher and she just yelled at her for leaving her phone unattended and told her if it happened again she’d give her asd. Another situation is when our PE coach gets mad at us for leaving a mess at the lunch table when the mess was from the class before us.when we try to tell him that the mess isn’t ours we just get in even more trouble for “Lying”. Coaches never listen to what we have to

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