The Daily Write Off

In recent weeks, I’ve started to play a game with the children I work with. The game works like this:

I ask them a crazy question, they think of the best answer they can. I then select the winner based on the depth and breadth of their answers, and we go again.

One of my favourite questions that I can remember asking them recently is this:

If your mother had a superpower, what would you want it to be, and why?

Personally, I would love it if my mother had the ability to immediately calm my father down any time he became upset.

My father has often been short-tempered and quick to fly off the handle, and often becomes a different person when he finds himself upset. Top that off with his general irritability, dislike for things not done his way, and his overall stubbornness, and I’m sure you can see the need for this magical calming as much as I can.

It would not only benefit the entire family, but my father himself, who I think would be the first to admit regret over the many times he’s lost the plot.

And as for my mother, I think she often struggles to know how and when to get involved in my father’s rage. She’s often quick to stop me or shut it down if I snap back (because I don’t take his shite either). I think she does this to protect me. Whereas with him, there’s no stopping him, and she lacks that same power that she might have over me – her very much don’t ask my age adult son.

And of course, it would help the rest of us in the family, because we wouldn’t have to live in fear as to when or where he will snap.

What would you choose to be your mother’s superpower? Responses or write-off submissions are open! Comment below, send me a message or use this prompt on your WordPress site! Thanks for reading and see you soon!

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