CallaFirestormBW
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a lot of you said that children is number one priority should not be the Master our first priority ? Honestly, I find it more effective to not "number" the priorities -- There are what we call "key priorities" and these are handled according to common sense criteria. If individuals are involved who are dependent, whether due to age or health or whatever, issues involving them are handled as promptly as possible -- you see, they can't take care of themselves. I am a Keeper (M-type) in our household -- a household containing a number of adult members who did not give birth to the saplings our household raised. It would be not ONLY unreasonable, in my mind, but the mark of a poor leader, if I, as a head of the household, did NOT take those things into consideration. As a slave, you have yielded authority, but not common sense and intelligence. OF COURSE a sapling in the household should be attended to promptly as hir needs require. OF COURSE xhe should be taught good manners, and to respect closed doors, and to behave well, and to start learning to attend to small things... BUT a child should -also- know that she is safe, have plenty of time to play, and be guided through hir mistakes with patience. I'll be honest, if an adult in our household could not understand such things, that person would not find themselves a long-term associate, much less a -member- of that household. I understand that you may be VERY caught up in your new understanding of your yielding nature, but I would remind you that you have taken on the responsibility of bearing an offspring -- and by accepting authority over your life, the person who is your Master must also accept that he is responsible for, and must behave appropriately towards, the young life that you've brought into this world and bear responsibility for. That reality is simply not dismissable for -any- reason short of dying. Calla
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*** Said to me recently: "Look, I know you're the "voice of reason"... but dammit, I LIKE being unreasonable!!!!" "Your mind is more interested in the challenge of becoming than the challenge of doing." Jon Benson, Bodybuilder/Trainer
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