Children who hit

[ailbhe]

My 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.

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[rmc28]

I like to think my journals will help me remember ;) So I suppose the editing is in what I choose to write down and what gets left out.

Charles only started deliberately hitting me recently, as opposed to the random flails of babies and toddlers. This is deliberate hitting when very cross, and gets responded to by me telling him that was a horrid thing to do and then walking away and refusing to play with him until he calms down (or the next-best minimal-attention thing I can manage if out and about). I was quite charmed, though having to hide it, when a few weeks ago he told me furiously "I want to PUSH YOU OVER, I am VERY CROSS with you".

I haven't written about this anywhere really. Perhaps I should.