Sometimes I thought I was a good mom. Sometimes, I felt like I spent the day nagging (唠叨不休) my kids rather than 1them, especially my strong-willed son. 2 a family get-together taught me an important 3.
My son was ten at the time and we were on a late night family 4 trip to Cleveland for the get-together the next day. I was taking my 5 at the wheel while my husband and my small daughter 6. My son, full of energy, was wide awake in the back seat. I 7 to stay awake, too, and I didn't want to 8 the radio, so I asked him to talk to me to help keep me 9. “Sure, Mom,” he said, "what do you want to 10?" I told him I'd talk about 11 he wanted to talk about. "How about frogs (青蛙)?" he asked. I said that would be 12, and for the next hour or so we talked about the 13 between frogs and toads (蟾蜍) , and 14 —basketball and soccer. He was quite 15 when we talked about Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson and how they got to be so famous. Now and then he would 16, but we'd continue to talk as I drove down the 17 road.
About an hour and a half later, when I finally 18, the bright lights woke everyone, and the magic of our discussion 19. But I knew that I had taken the first step toward changing a bad 20 habit with someone I love very much.
