diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-meldown-13

I told Mom what happened at the empty lot,
and how she needed to go out there and yell at
those stupid kids for us.
But Mom said that learning to deal with “conflict”
is part of growing up, and that me and Rowley
were gonna have to deal with this on our OWN.
I didn’t like the sound of THAT. I thought the
whole POINT of having parents is that you’ve
got someone to solve your problems FOR you.
Dad was listening from the other room, and he
had a TOTALLY different take. He said that
the neighborhood kids had just declared WAR on
me and Rowley, and if we didn’t fight BACK,
they’d think it was OK to attack us whenever
they WANTED.
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