Please Help me and My Family
My family don't get along. It's like we all hate each other. It's my mom, me, my two brothers and a sister. I am the oldest. We all have certain problems: My mom wants to quit smoking so she is really stressed out. I am really selfish (I just can't help it). My older brothers is too bossy. He thinks he is better than the rest of us and that he is the only one who helps my mom. My younger brother is kind of abusive and depressed. He always starts fights and he's really spoiled (my mom doesn't yell at him for doing things wrong and when she does, he laughs at her); My sister (who's 7) makes messes and doesn't clean them up. I really want to help because I don't like being upset all of the time and having everyone hate everyone else. Even when we start to get along, someone will say something to upset someone else. Please help me and my family.
Female, 15
1. Read the situation and then answer the following questions:
- What should the mother do to improve the situation?
-What should the older brother do?
- And the younger brother?
-And the sister?
-What should the girl who wrote the letter do?
2. Now find another way to say:
-yell
-upset
-get along
-selfish
-fights
