Ten-year-old Jonah dreads each time her mother has to send him to his grandmother’s and it’s often because his mother had picked up extra shifts at work and needed her mother to babysit him. He dreads going to his grandmother’s because his grandmother likes to dole out insults whenever she doesn’t understand something, something her generation never had to deal with, like obesity.
“Get your bum off that couch and run outside, play soccer, or something you kids do these days, ya sack of taters,” his grandmother once said, perhaps thinking Jonah is too young to understand her lingo but Jonah understood every word that came out of her mouth and inside, he was just about burst into tears.
“I… I’m not obese,” Jonah wanted to say but was choking by his tears, “I’m metabolically challenged,” his mother taught him those words.
After a few moments, his grandmother sauntered down to the hallway toward her sewing room, clicking her tongue, and muttering, “Kids these days, how does my daughter raise her son? What does she feed him – sacks of taters?”
Written for Six Sentence Story. The prompt is “Sack”.
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What unkind thing to say.
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I think grandma should adjust her filter.
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Yes, she should be more understanding and kind
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I agree.
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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It was a different generation, but still very hard to laugh it off. Gramma should wait to see how her “words of love” are received…and as the adult, amend. But as I said, different generation. Sigh.
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I agree, it’s a different generation. It might be a gen x thing because my mom (a gen xer) would say such thing to me from time to time.
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He just needs a change of diet: sweet potatoes rather than French fries, no snacks rather than popcorn.
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Maybe…
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Being encouraged to choose healthy food and to go out and play might work better. Maybe they could plant a garden together, lots of kids learn to love veggies after they’ve worked to grow them, and why can’t Grandma go out and play with him, encourage them both to stay fit and mobile? Anyway, there are kind and loving ways to do it.
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hats off to you !!! brilliant; count me a subscriber 🙂
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Thank you. Glad you like it.
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ps I have bookmarked this story —
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