You decide to fight back! You lung at your mother with shimmering white teeth bared in a snarl. You latch onto your mother's broom arm and begin to pull her down. She screams at you and takes the broom in the other hand and tries to beat you with it.

Your head is hit again and again and again! Finally you can't take the pain! You release your mother and shimmy a few feet away. You try to talk to your mother but all that comes out is some high-pitched growls, yelps, and whines.

Your mother stops ranting for a moment, looks at you, scratches her head, nods, then begins to beat you again! "GRRRRRR!!!!! Now I'm mad!" you think. But you think, you should try not to hurt her so she understands that your her son. What should you do?