Document Type
Cause and Effect Essay
Publication Date
1992
Excerpt
"Cowabunga, dude!" The words came blasting from the little green, human monsters that I was babysitting. I had been babysitting for only five hours, and yet it seemed as if I had been there for an eternity. Alex had already been sent to the bad boy chair four times. Nicholas had been ordered to play alone in his room for an hour. Natalie had her television privileges taken away from her for the morning. The baby, Erin, had absorbed the atmosphere of the house; she was fretful and difficult, and this was only the beginning of the trouble. Before their mother left, she had given the children specific directions not to ride their bicycles in the street. They obviously didn't understand. Now, I was upstairs attempting to rock a hollering baby asleep. Over the baby's crying, I heard a scream from downstairs.
Recommended Citation
Trimpe, Lisa, "The Runaway Ninja Turtles- Why Were They So Violent (1992)" (1992). The Valpo Core Reader. 322.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/322