[MD] Mommy tendencies

[John Carl]

Marsha,

I thought I'd do some thread clarification, but your question of how I
define mommy tendencies is deserving, to my mind, of its own topic, since
the Q'm" places mammalian motherhood as the center of known being.

So, first clue in to what makes up mommy tendencies, the actual behaviors of
mammal mothers.

When I was in the sixth grade, I went to a neighbor's house to see the new
kittens.  I took my dog.  Usually cats run from dogs, but the tendency of a
mommy nursing who sees an enemy up close is to attack.  I don't speak cat
language per se, but I'm quite sure if I could translate what that mommy had
to say, it'd make an xacto blush.  In a flash, my dog was gone, running and
yelping and crying down the street for home as fast as she could go with a
furious mother on her back.

It was all gentleness, nurturing and purring one second, hissing, clawing
and scratching the eyes the next.

Which is the true mommy tendency?  The nursing or  the cursing?

Both of course, each in its appropriate time.

Perhaps we have subconscious memories of being in the womb.  I don't know.
 All I know is that becoming aware of objects is a process that needs
dynamic guidance and careful attention and whenever I see that dynamic
guidance and careful attention, I think of it as mommy tendency, which even
us males can sometimes exhibit, but usually not as instinctively.    I do
think there is some female in every male, and some male in every female,
that we are carriers of patterns and not prisoners of them.  But the
patterns I observe are as empirical as daylight.


John the respectful dog