I just want to keep them sheltered forever!

[Barefoot~Baker]

I don't know if I'm just neurotic, maybe it's my pregnancy hormones, I don't know but now I'm feeling a little silly about writing this but I have to tell someone...

I've always been a sahm, my girls are 5 and 3 1/2. We live in a rural area, and they have friends but we spend most of our time at home. Well today I took them to the local park and there were a couple of other moms and a few kids there. My 5 year old is very friendly and sociable, and was trying to talk to one of the other girls there, who shrugged her off a couple of times and said something like "go away". My dd said to her "but, I'm just trying to be your friend" and then just went and played with the others, but it just broke my heart, I just wanted to cry. It didn't really bother her very much. She mentioned it in the car and once at home, but I think she's fine.

I guess I just needed to vent. I wish I could protect them from all heartache and they are so little still, it's only going to get worse, I don't know how I'm going to deal with things like this in the future.

Ok, I am hormonal

[Cherie2]

Hormones do amplify it .. but I know exactly what you mean… in the middle of my very light ppd with my second I had this overwhelming feeling of “what have I done to myself??” I will just die if anything bad ever happens to these kids … If I only would have known this …. Lol …… I still feel that way, but not overwhelmed with it anymore … I think it is something that will never go away ..

[Genesis]

Aww I am probably going to be the same way when my children are older. That would make me so sad to see my little one get his feelings hurt.

[Sweet Peak]

Awe, hormones or not, that would kill me. When my lil guy cries, it literally makes me want to cry.
I am going to be such a protective polar bear when my cub grows older.

[Sierra]

I feel that way too when my (city) kids get hurt in social interactions. It's the main thing that makes me want to shelter my kids. On one hand, they have to learn to handle themselves, but on the other hand, I just hate it when people behave in a nasty way toward others and I don't want my kids to be on the giving or receiving end of that.

[pauletoy]

Yeah, I have a lot of that mama bear instinct, too.

[coffee.caugh]

poor little thing kids can be so mean.

[Barefoot~Baker]

Thank you for your replies, you've made me feel a lot better

I had a good cry before I went to bed and got it all out of my system. Aaahh life!

[karemore]

This bothers me too and I'm not pregnant!

My daughter is very social and outgoing. She wants to make friends with everyone, and not everyone is comfortable with that!

So far DD takes it in stride, but I am the one who hurts for her.

[Harmony08]

Oh, I think about this too! I was thinking the other day about how I blew off this guy who really liked me in highschool. I didn't think anything of it at the time but the other day I thought about some one doing that to my son and I felt very sorry. Sad.

Kids can be mean and teachers can be mean. It is hard to remember things that you went through as a child and to imagine those things happening to your baby. It is life I know. I know the best thing we can do is to raise whole, secure, loving children and then be there to support them through tough times. But, MAN, these mama bear pangs are sharp!

[Harmony08]

Originally Posted by Cherie2

Hormones do amplify it .. but I know exactly what you mean… in the middle of my very light ppd with my second I had this overwhelming feeling of “what have I done to myself??” I will just die if anything bad ever happens to these kids … If I only would have known this …. Lol …… I still feel that way, but not overwhelmed with it anymore … I think it is something that will never go away ..

I have had exactly this feeling as well. I have felt overwhelming protective and have said a bunch of times to dh "Nothing can happen to this child because I don't know what would happen to me".

I agree with you that that feeling does not go away. It is definitely still in me but I just can't stay in that place for long because it is way too powerful.