Wean the bullshit before weaning the baby~ a piece.
No, mumma.
It’s not him you need to wean.
It’s everyone and everything else
that’s on your boob
but shouldn’t be.
Let your kids have their
rightful place as the receivers
of your life force.
Your kids are not what
is most tiring you.
Your life is.
They shouldn’t be
‘Sleeping through the night’.
Our lives should be
better able to support us
so we can rest in the days.
It’s not them that needs ‘Training’.
We need re-training.
Our culture needs re-training.
We need to be less available
to so much that doesn’t matter
so we can have the energy
for what does.
Often we tolerate immaturity
in other adults
more than we tolerate it
in our own children.
Our children have a
God given right to immaturity
and we signed a sacred contract
to allow them to innocently have it.
Tantrums
Night feeds
Neediness
Closeness
Our kids are inherently
worthy of these.
They deserve our boob
other adults
and artificial matrices
do not.
It’s natural and holy
and right
for our babies
to need
us in the night
for emotions bigger
than the Grand Canyon
to erupt in our presence.
We are their soothers.
This is nature in perfection.
It’s our lives that need to amend
to meet this truth.
Our babies wanting their mum
in the depths of the dark night
when they are so new to this world,
Is not the problem.
Our full, busy lives
are the problem.
All that separates us
from our nature,
is the problem.
Wean the bullshitte
before weaning the baby.
~ Peta Kelly
Written 2021.
Note: this is a piece, an expression. It’s not the whole convo.
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