Blessed to have a "Better Person"

I think it's a rare occasion that a daughter or son, in their teenage years, values their relationship with their mother. With this, I think I am an exception to this stereotype. There is nothing too wishy washy about my mother and I, I just love the way she handles an everyday situation. Fighting girls in highschool, the typical drama: this is what Mary Beth Murray(my mother) responds to best.. by doing the exact opposite. She would never throw herself into my buisness or my average high school encounters. Whereas OTHER mothers try to live through their children, and act as though they are children. They feel the need to treat others with disrespect even though they are an adault. I have learned through personal experiences that elders are to be treated as elders, if they act like elders, and even so I chose not to disrespect them, only to prove their own foolishness. Anyway, the situations that I describe here are all things my mom would never, ever do. Her daughter could be embrassed, threatened and harassed at times, and she would still treat the other mother with respect, and the other mothers CHILDREN with respect. She is a living example of the 'better person' and my siblings and I are blessed for that.