Exactly what I was looking for, being really scared about touching a toddler. Can I ask what kind of trauma ? Dropping the baby ?
No, itwasn't something so simple.
It was years of observing, and bearing the brunt of, physical & psychological abuse from multiple family members towards each other & myself. I was a kid brought up in a family whose parents were about to divorce. My father acted brutally both physically and psychologically to everyone of us. It's hard to be a 4-year-old hiding beneath the kitchen table while your parents are screaming and throwing stuff about. By that age, one of my brothers--the meanest one; the one convicted of killing my grandparents years later in my life--had already run away from home. The next time I'd see him was on TV.
I chose to live with my mom. She remarried a violent alcoholic when I was 8.
My luck just keeps getting better from that point on.
My point is, I fear children for the simple reason that I don't want to be the very thing that influences them in a negative way. I
know I have been, and still am a bad influence in so many ways.
It's kind of a catch-22 when you think about it, though. You have to
be around the kid in order to influence them either way...and that includes the postive way.
So being that I'm expecting my 1
st born in just 5 months I think I'm going to have to start getting comfortable with the fact that I'm
going to be around kids...quite a lot.