10 April

The perennial. I think an important topic because so many of our assumptions about physicality are bound up in this one. I think smacking is vital to the psychological health of all children, without it they become whimpering, anxious wrecks. Many will make any sort of touch = physical abuse. And that's it, in a nutshell, for me. We have no nunace in our thinking at all in relation to touch. Whether it's smacking, affectionate touch between relative strangers etc. Touch is where a lot of curious assumptions we carry around come to a head.