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Personal boundaries are always drawn. No matter how tactile you are or act, there is a set of boundaries beyond which you do not let a person unless there's a more intimate connection there.

C. has talked about a book, written in the 70s, which contends that most of the problems in our society stem from the touch we don't get during a crucial "in-arms" stage of developments. At the same time as, in Ghana, babies and toddlers are constantly picked up, cuddled, carried around by their mothers, 10-year-old sisters and random strangers (no concept of harming a child, or fear of your child being harmed, seems to come into play), we put our children in strollers and cribs.

I don't know, I have to think about this a lot more, not to mention read the book itself, before I make up my mind about this; but it does ring true.

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Personal boundaries are always drawn. No matter how tactile you are or act, there is a set of boundaries beyond which you do not let a person unless there's a more intimate connection there.

C. has talked about a book, written in the 70s, which contends that most of the problems in our society stem from the touch we don't get during a crucial "in-arms" stage of developments. At the same time as, in Ghana, babies and toddlers are constantly picked up, cuddled, carried around by their mothers, 10-year-old sisters and random strangers (no concept of harming a child, or fear of your child being harmed, seems to come into play), we put our children in strollers and cribs.

I don't know, I have to think about this a lot more, not to mention read the book itself, before I make up my mind about this; but it does ring true.

Tell me something good.

'Kay, friend-list people. The mood is consistently dismal, oppressive in my immediate geographic proximity. I don't live like this, by focussing on the minute negatives. Tell me about the good things in your life.

I suppose I'll start.

( Let's see... )

Tell me something good.

'Kay, friend-list people. The mood is consistently dismal, oppressive in my immediate geographic proximity. I don't live like this, by focussing on the minute negatives. Tell me about the good things in your life.

I suppose I'll start.

( Let's see... )