Little Pink Book Intro

Okay, so a little while back while stuff was still pretty damn bad with my parents and all of that, I started writing in a little pink notebook. I wrote how I felt and I tried to place myself in the shoes of my mom, my dad, and my brother. I don't know how well it worked, but I made short, easy little entries pretty often. It was set somewhere a little more than a year in the future, and it really helped me humanize my parents when it seemed they were nothing more than obstacles to my happiness.

 I thought it'd make a nice little series of blog posts, so, I asked My halley about it, and xe said it could be a good idea. (I'm always very indecisive, so I wasn't sure how readable it would be. So, Anyway, now and again, I'll do an entry titled "Little Pink Book" and then a number, with the same graphic pictured above, and that'll be another piece of the book that is my take on how everyone feels.

An Amazing Moment

Tuesday, we took Joey to the aquarium. He's been talking a lot about sharks lately, and was very excited when told the possibility of seeing a real, live shark existed. And he loved it, he had fun, and it was awesome. At this particular aquarium, they have a tank full of gentle pajama sharks that they let you pet. Joey loved this and so did I, but that's not what I'm here to talk about.

I'm here to talk about a little boy who reached his whole arm in the water. A person I'm guessing is his dad was holding him up, and he couldn't have been more than two. He had blonde hair and blue eyes, and was tiny. I smiled at him, and as I watched a shark go by, he touched it. Then, this amazing look of unadulterated joy came across his face. It was the kind of  look that doesn't happen much. I don't know that child. I don't know what he will grow up to be. I don't know whether he will believe in a god, whether he will fall in love, get married, have babies and treat them right. I don't know whether he will be president. I don't know what his parents believe, how they treat him, if they circumcised him. But in essence, through that moment, I know this child. I participated in a moment in his life that everyone ought to have a few more of, and it was beautiful.

Things like this moment make me aware of just how wonderful the world really is, and, when it seems so awful, I can just think of this little boy, all his dreams seeming fulfilled because he got to pet a shark.

Sunscreen

I don't understand why parents put so much effort into parenting in such a harmful way. It's so much easier to be peaceful. So, time for a personal anecdote.

I was playing outside with Joey a little while back and it was time to reapply sunscreen. 6 year olds have a reputation for being unable to see the consequences of their actions, and I could understand he would get burned and possibly increase his risk for skin cancer. He could not and got very upset when I told him he had to put more on. The conversation went something like this:

"Joey, you have to put on more sunscreen."
"no! I won't!"
"If  you don't, you will get burned and might get a really bad kind of disease"
"I wanna get burnt!"
"I don't think you do" (I knew he didn't mean what he was saying, at this point)

Then he started to run away from me, so I followed him, and picked him up, carrying him to the porch and the sunscreen. I could have punished him, and told him I'd take things away from him. Instead, I tried the following:

"You have two choices. You can put on sunscreen or go inside"
"none choices!" his way of saying neither
"I'm sorry, those are your only two. If you try to run away from me again, you are choosing go inside."
So, he ran away again, I picked him up again and carried him inside.
"okay, inside it is then"
"Sis, can I play with your 3ds?"
"Yes"
And he was happy, I was happy, and no one was hurting, crying, screaming, bruised, burnt, existing with increased risk of skin cancer, in a corner, restrained from enjoying themselves, or spoiled somehow. And it took less effort than forcible restraint or threat of physical punishment. It seems silly how so many parents would have said "If you won't put it on, then you will get a spanking/you are grounded/you aren't allowed outside again."
Be easy with your kids, and everyone is happier.

Introduction

Hi! My name is Brittany. I am 17 years old, and can describe myself in a lot of ways. I am as liberal as they come. I am a screaming advocate for peaceful, natural parenting, and a proud sister to 6 year old Joey. I try to care for him in the ways I would care for my own children, but sometimes his parents get in my way. It's hard to practice peaceful parenting with a child that isn't yours. haha. I am also a lesbian, and proud of it. I'm in love with My beautiful, precious girl, Halley. I am proud to be with her and love her so much. I'm kinky; Naturally submissive, but usually playing the dominant role, because Halley loves it so much. I'm a girly sort of girl. I love dresses and sparkles and pink and rainbows. I am an atheist, and consider religion frankly dangerous, therefore hate it. I do not hate religious people, though. I love some of them a lot and hope to "show them the light" so to speak. I am a total child at heart. I love dolls and kids' shows. Especially Moose and Zee on noggin. I have one new, special doll. She's 18 inches and her name is Lellianna. I love to play with her and be a mommy. Speaking of which, I am the type to want to be a stay at home mommy. I want to take care of my babies and cook and clean for my wife. I don't feel anyone should be forced to do what makes them unhappy. I feel I should have every right to work any place that offers jobs to people, but that I should have the right to opt out. I am a gamer and a let's player. I love the classic series like Zelda, Mario, and Final Fantasy. I also love Kingdom Hearts and have played quite a few other games. Shooters are not my thing and I am not even interested enough to pick up a controller for them. As for let's plays, Joey and I have started a let's play of majora's mask. If you want to find it, the channel is SissyandJoeyLP. Anyway, guys, I don't think I've left any of the main things I wanted to cover out of this, so I'm done!