{"id":1097,"date":"2022-09-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2022-09-18T02:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T02:00:39","slug":"show-how-smart-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/topics\/growing-up-girl\/show-how-smart-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Show How Smart You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Some girls, probably all girls are smarter than boys. That\u2019s why, learning to dumb yourself down is so hard. When I was a little girl, I had already developed a love for words. I thought I wanted to be an English teacher. If I were, schools of people would diagram sentences with me. Sure, that\u2019s childish thinking, but I was a child.<\/p>

The thing is, I corrected everyone. It\u2019s my mother\u2019s fault. She was a grammarian. Not professionally, but in our house, she sure acted like one. I picked up the habit of correcting people, the same way my mother corrected us. If some kid said, \u201cHe should have ran to the next base.\u201d Stop everything. Who cares about running to home plate? That grammar needs correcting.<\/p>

\u201cHe should have run,\u201d I would call out.<\/p>

\u201cWhy don\u2019t you, should have run now?\u201d someone might holler.<\/p>

\u201cWell, say it right and I will.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>

\u201cTag, you\u2019re out.\u201d<\/p>

Now, everyone on my team went into a huff.<\/p>

\u201cThat\u2019s why girls should never play baseball,\u201d one of the boys might say to me.<\/p>

I didn\u2019t care. My mother always said, \u201cIf you speak poorly, everyone will think poorly of you.\u201d \u00a0It sure sounded like a right-minded idea to me. I went on correcting people. Anyone and everyone. It was my duty.<\/p>

One day, I was maybe ten, one of my mother\u2019s friends came over for a visit. I hate to tell on her, but she used bad grammar all the time.\u201d Well, without thinking to stop myself, I corrected her. She had said something like, \u201cI bought the kids over to play.\u201d<\/p>

I said, without pausing, \u201cBrought.\u201d<\/p>

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My mother gave me a look. Oh boy, there was trouble in my future. I left the room, hoping my mother would forget all about it. I didn\u2019t like those kids anyway, so I didn\u2019t care about not playing with them. I read in my room. After those people left our house, my mother called me down.<\/p>

\u201cYou don\u2019t correct adults,\u201d she said.<\/p>

\u201cWell, she shouldn\u2019t speak so poorly.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s not your job to correct her.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cYou didn\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s not my job either.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cWhose job, is it?\u201d<\/p>

\u201cNo one\u2019s. She\u2019s a grown woman and you don\u2019t correct adults.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cShe should go back to school,\u201d I said.<\/p>

I had gone too far. My mother said, \u201cWhere is my belt.\u201d She gave me some good lickings. When she finished, she said, \u201cYou don\u2019t need to show how smart you are all the time.\u201d<\/p>

Nothing she said, made sense to me. I wasn\u2019t trying to show how smart I was. I wanted to help that woman. The thing is\u2026 I wonder if she would have said that to my brother.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t \t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n\t \n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Show How Smart You Are: M. H. Mundy – Thoughts on growing up girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growing-up-girl","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"

Show How Smart You AreGrowing Up Girl<\/h1>\n

Some girls, probably all girls are smarter than boys. That\u2019s why, learning to dumb yourself down is so hard. When I was a little girl, I had already developed a love for words. I thought I wanted to be an English teacher. If I were, schools of people would diagram sentences with me. Sure, that\u2019s childish thinking, but I was a child.<\/p>

The thing is, I corrected everyone. It\u2019s my mother\u2019s fault. She was a grammarian. Not professionally, but in our house, she sure acted like one. I picked up the habit of correcting people, the same way my mother corrected us. If some kid said, \u201cHe should have ran to the next base.\u201d Stop everything. Who cares about running to home plate? That grammar needs correcting.<\/p>

\u201cHe should have run,\u201d I would call out.<\/p>

\u201cWhy don\u2019t you, should have run now?\u201d someone might holler.<\/p>

\u201cWell, say it right and I will.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>

\u201cTag, you\u2019re out.\u201d<\/p>

Now, everyone on my team went into a huff.<\/p>

\u201cThat\u2019s why girls should never play baseball,\u201d one of the boys might say to me.<\/p>

I didn\u2019t care. My mother always said, \u201cIf you speak poorly, everyone will think poorly of you.\u201d \u00a0It sure sounded like a right-minded idea to me. I went on correcting people. Anyone and everyone. It was my duty.<\/p>

One day, I was maybe ten, one of my mother\u2019s friends came over for a visit. I hate to tell on her, but she used bad grammar all the time.\u201d Well, without thinking to stop myself, I corrected her. She had said something like, \u201cI bought the kids over to play.\u201d<\/p>

I said, without pausing, \u201cBrought.\u201d<\/p>

\u00a0<\/p>\n\"Show\n

My mother gave me a look. Oh boy, there was trouble in my future. I left the room, hoping my mother would forget all about it. I didn\u2019t like those kids anyway, so I didn\u2019t care about not playing with them. I read in my room. After those people left our house, my mother called me down.<\/p>

\u201cYou don\u2019t correct adults,\u201d she said.<\/p>

\u201cWell, she shouldn\u2019t speak so poorly.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s not your job to correct her.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cYou didn\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s not my job either.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cWhose job, is it?\u201d<\/p>

\u201cNo one\u2019s. She\u2019s a grown woman and you don\u2019t correct adults.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cShe should go back to school,\u201d I said.<\/p>

I had gone too far. My mother said, \u201cWhere is my belt.\u201d She gave me some good lickings. When she finished, she said, \u201cYou don\u2019t need to show how smart you are all the time.\u201d<\/p>

Nothing she said, made sense to me. I wasn\u2019t trying to show how smart I was. I wanted to help that woman. The thing is\u2026 I wonder if she would have said that to my brother.<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}