Line in the sand

[ailbhe]

I've decided that I am just not going to accept "hitting children" or "physically assaulting children" as something grownups can't help doing. If I'm losing my temper that badly, I need help. I have a list of excuses, reasons or triggers as long as anyone's arm, but that doesn't make it ok, and I am allowed to insist that no-one persuade me that it's actually ok to hit children sometimes.

I really, really don't want them to grow up thinking it's ok to hit children "if you're cross enough" or something. I don't want them to fight the same urge to hurt I have to fight.

Also, I want everyone to breathe properly so I can get some sleep, please.

Comments

[the-changeling.livejournal.com]

And, of course, there is the whole load of work that has nothing to do with Linnea. About you coming to terms with yourself, that you can act like this, when under huge stress. That you are, ya know, human. Breakable. Broken at times.

Big deals, all that. You deserve the have the time to work and process on it, with support from the rest of the human race.

:-)

[ailbhe]

Oh, she's fine. This isn't about Linnea.