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Parental Strength: How Good is Your Emotional Health?
Showing up as a stable parent is a choice, unlike waking up
She bit me on my neck.
I felt her teeth sinking into my collagen-lacking, tired, lined skin and closed my eyes.
I could’ve thrown her six metres but I just squeezed onto her a little tighter.
She stopped after three seconds.
We both wondered what would come next.
She was panting, huffing and puffing.
Her little delicate ribs felt as if they’d pop at any point.
My heart broke a little more as she suddenly pushed away.
I put her down and she marched off, screaming and telling me to go back in the play hut.
I was not wanted, I was embarrassing her, it was over. Once again. Sorted, end of… but yet, not.
Living with a sensitive, sensory avoidant, antisocial and anxious child is not easy.
My one and only daughter is not yet diagnosed as being on the spectrum or having some specific health issue thanks to the monumental screw up of governmental decisions to halt life, living and all other health matters during the Covid calamity.
