Getting Through the Day

-Fred, San Francisco 

Hard work to me means getting through the day without doing anything that might get me in trouble. 

Hard work to me also means taking care of siblings when my parents are out because it’s always something going on between them. I’ll have to decide what I should do to keep them from hurting each other or messing up around the house. 

I know that my mom has a hard time waking all of my siblings up for school because my siblings go to different schools and she has to take the little ones to school somewhere else while my brother could just walk or get on the bus. When she leaves, my brother would go back to sleep so it’ll be my job to wake him up so that’s what I do.