Children who hit
Jul. 21st, 2010 01:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheMy mother swears she was never hit by any of us after we were two.
But we can remember doing it. Not much, like, but hitting one's mother is a bit of a Big Deal and sticks in the guilt-ridden memory somewhat.
I wonder will my journals prevent me from rewriting the children's pasts? Or just alter how I rewrite them? I know other parents who swear they never smacked their children, with similar contradictory child-memories.
But we can remember doing it. Not much, like, but hitting one's mother is a bit of a Big Deal and sticks in the guilt-ridden memory somewhat.
I wonder will my journals prevent me from rewriting the children's pasts? Or just alter how I rewrite them? I know other parents who swear they never smacked their children, with similar contradictory child-memories.
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Date: 2010-07-21 12:23 pm (UTC)Exactly. Whereas there's a chance that for her it was more one of those things young children do so didn't stick in her mind. Or it wasn't what she counts as proper hitting so she doesn't remember it.