“As a mother sometimes I don’t know what to do but it does hurt me really bad. I know I was not the best but I does try, that is the most I can do try.”
A mother of five relating a recent misunderstanding she had with her eldest child. As she spoke tears rolled down her cheeks and I looked away because I was not sure what to say at that moment. I hurt for her but wondered what else I could do.
“If you know how she cuss me out. She cuss me out nasty and all I could do was cry because I can’t beat she or nothing but I just cry and say to me self how me own child could do this. Things what I would never think about saying to me mother she saying to me,” she told me as her voice quivered.