I know. I'm so punny. But here's a great big HAIIIIIIIIIIII to March! Great month ahead.

Besides the obvious that it is the 3rd month of the year, it is also the 10th last month of the year! Amazing.

Okay, enough with the lame stuff. There's only a few reasons why I look forward to March.

1. F1 is restarting! I'm a massive F1 fan so, real excited!~ Enough said, no elaborations needed.

2. March Common Tests are coming! I love this one even more, keeps me awake in class every single day. I even dreamt of it! It's so... magical... NOT.

3. It's my 18th birthday and I'm not afraid to tell the world bloody world. 12.3 is the date. Easy to remember. *wink wink*

Nothing much to write about March, actually. So here's what I'm really going to talk about today: parents.

Disclaimer: I love my parents as much as any child would, I would obey them, I would try to make them proud.

Rightie, let's get started.

So my brother and my mum got into a heated argument last night. Mum came into his room, without knocking, and then just kinda loudly said "IS THIS YOUR COMPUTER MOUSE?" in Chinese. It's not loud per se, it's not those kinda screaming and angry kind of loud. It was just loud because my brother was putting on his headphones and playing a game.

Obviously, as what my brother would always do, he would "shush" my mother. Of course, that's a bit rude to his parents. But what happened next made me think that parents can really go ALL OUT to defend themselves.

My mother did start to raise her voice a lil', a bit of anger. "I TALK TO YOU NICELY AND YET YOU SHUSH ME. STOP PLAYING YOUR GAME. SLEEP NOW."  My brother, being the slightly ill-tempered man he is, defended himself. "My friends all heard you scream! Don't you think it's a bit rude to interrupt someone abruptly while he's talking?"

Mum had to defend herself. She just went on and on about manners, and my brother pointed out that she "wouldn't want to be interrupted during a phone call by a loud voice, either." Mum then went on to how ill-tempered he is, how he's not been talking to them (Mum and Dad), how he's just simply rude.

I overheard most of the things in my room, and well, a lot of door-slamming. I came to the conclusion that parents will make very poor lawyers and humanities students. They can spill the facts, but they can't link them together to make sense at all. Mum just went on and on about everything bad about my brother, and obviously, he was defensive and soon, the argument ended when my mother confiscated his laptop.

It, unfortunately, didn't end there. Bro was still slamming his doors, refusing to eat breakfast with Mum and Dad. I was half-awake, and I overheard the arguments again. Dad came into his room and said, "No matter how your parents scold you or beat you, they'll always be right."

Old-school indeed. I didn't really bother to defend my brother because I was too tired, but really, he's been a victim of over-aggressive parents. I felt a bit sad for him, having to withstand such a stupid and pointless argument that my parents were never going to make sense of. Clearly they only accept an apology, and not to apologise. It's terrible.

Once again, let me say that I love my parents unconditionally, and would do everything to make them proud and happy. But, in times like this when they may not make sense in arguments, it's really tiring to defend. It makes you angry.

At least it didn't happen to me this time, but it has happened before. Just not to such a huge extent.

Next time when I'm a parent, I'll know how to apologise to my children, to understand what they've been going through. I will never erase this part of my life, because I'll then know how exactly my children will feel when they are at the age I am at now. That being said, I won't give in to my children too; discipline is, after all, important. But at the same time, parents need to be both parents and friends of their children. They've been through teenage years too, so why do they forget all of that, and instead choose to put their ego ahead of their understanding? Ego isn't that important all the time, even if you're a senior of another.

Okay, enough said. Bai~

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