Taking it Out on Me.

Well not me: There’s been a rise of 70% in youngsters, 10 to 14, self-harming in two years. So how do I identify with that? A spokeswoman said, “It is the pressures of the modern world and some of these pressures are unprecedented.” Something about that reading irks me. It quietly condones “the pressures of the modern world” as noble and being unable to cope with them as failure. It’s a view of ‘us and them’ from our adult ego protecting itself. Where we as adults create situations these youngsters are in the hands of the situations we create. And we have created the toxicity, not pressure, that they are responding to, and not in ‘the modern world’ but a malignant world of our making. They are only manifesting ‘the toxicity of the malignant world’ of our adult creation. The answer is not in helping young minds cope with their problems but to blast the cancerous cobwebs out of our old minds. Not a few poorly performing parents, the next scapegoats on the list, but our minds. How are we in a miriad of different ways providing a toxic environment for this next generation? Kids often blame themselves because they haven’t sufficient understanding of what is being done to them and self harming, ‘taking it out on me’, is a perfect example. As a Rogers organism all they know is something is wrong. It’s up to us as adults to see the toxicity we’re creating and put it right.