By The Light of the Full Moon....

Now, if I admit to being a Pagan who makes sacrifices, will you be thinking, "Where's my phone.... some lunatic is hurting children!"

I could understand your concern and reaction.

Relax.... I don't hurt children!

Unless you count that time when I was upset with one of mine and shouted at them, maybe even pushed them or smacked them. I know it's not politically correct nowadays because there's so much concern about child abuse. Still, as their Mother, I feel it's my duty for me to demonstrate how upset someone maybe and give them an  opportunity to explore reactions, test their ability to cope with the reaction: make judgements in advance through learning how to recognise what the potential outcome maybe to any given action and to make associations in connection.

This IS part of my job.

I'm a Mother. That's almost a dirty word in our language today.

Why is that?

Why are Mum's, Mothers so poorly considered. It seems to me that there's so many obstacles placed in a Mothers path to allow her to improve and provide a happy, secure and intelligently challenging and supportive environment for her children to grow up within.

That's what we describe in clinical 'professional' terms as the ideal environment for human progress. It's the fundamental requirement and purpose of our species. However else you want to view the world and yourself within it, we all have an unspoken pact, allegiance, NEED.

In no particular order,

a) We want Our children to have what we didn't when we were kids.- Emotive = (Emotional/Motive). This also demonstrates acquired/refining skills and preference and predictive.

b) If our biological imperitave really works as we understand it, it is IN effect = the genetic/dna AND 'survival of the fittest' . - ImPerItive

c) We've identified, defined, described and researched our skills. We've listed them.

1) Healthy

2) Highly intelligent

3) Creative - (Innovative/Imaginative)

4) Adaptable

5) Credible

If you can think of any additional descriptive skill not already within one of those 5 categories, let me know.


Anyway, I''m a pagan but the sacrifices I make appear quite ordinary, people make sacrifices all the time. It's part of the job description - I'm a MUM.

Ultimately, however, I gain through these same sacrifices so in effect, they're not really a sacrifice but a promise.