Originally Posted by
Mara
I've never been struck in my life, except once by a six-year-old boy who walloped me across the face repeatedly while I tried to subdue him. I was fifteen or sixteen and working at a child care center. The boy was... troubled... and had begun raging at the other children, so I finally had to take him in the other room and hold him still, but I couldn't get a hold of one of his arms, which kept striking me.
It may sound silly, since he was a decade younger than me, but I was all over with bruises the next day. Strong kid. Plus, I wasn't fighting back.