When the boxboy spilled the bleach on Gianna, my mind was split in 2 ways…a) Get Gia to water and help her (the part that won), and b)beat the stuffing out of the clueless kid that didn’t even know why my child was screeching at the top of her lungs.

I am a passive person, but had Gia not needed immediate attention, I would have been a screamer that day.

I think the knee-jerk reaction will always be to want to beat the other person to a bloody pulp…

But i’m also a big believer in the fact that most people are inherently good and would never intentionally hurt or endanger anyone, let alone a child. When someone does something stupid I try to remind myself they’re probably just as shaken up and upset as I am.

So yes, I’m a cry & cover my baby with a bazillion kisses & not want to leave the house for a week kinda mom.

I am the screaming type. Endanger a loved one and watch out.
However, I learned to shut my mouth when my sister, who was really little at the time, told me I scared her more than the car. That pretty much shut me up.

The thing that really upsets me is the driving too fast thing. 30 km/h is set that way for a reason. It should be snail paced in a parking lot. Its just too big of a risk.

Yeah, I’m not an angry, screaming type either, but I don’t know what I’d do if Oliver was in danger. I’m sure there’s a little bit of psycho-mom hiding out inside me somewhere.

Thanks for the exersaucer comment. I’m going to update the post with a few more websites in the next couple days. I looked for exersaucers in Germany, but they just don’t seem to have them. I found them in the UK, but I don’t know what shipping would be like.

Wow… great post Blythe! Well-written and thought-provoking!

A few months ago, a woman with a stroller and an adorable infant son came up to me as I was working in the front yard, demanding to know whether we had a Golden Retriever. She was red and fuming too. “Yes, ” I answered and pointed to Shasta who was watching (sweetly!) from the living room window. The woman insisted that Shasta had “scared the shit out of and almost bitten” her baby in the stroller. She was absolutely furious and terrified!

Knowing that Shasta would NEVER, ever hurt a flea (and adores children), but also that she is VERY portective of our place, I knew that the woman could be right in the sense that Shasta probably barked and ran toward the stroller.

I decided not to refute the woman, only to assure her that Tahoe would never hurt a child, but that I can see how her behavior would have frightened a child. I apologized profusely, assuring her that, as a mom I understood the fear.

A mother is MEANT to be THAT protective of her child and to become a person you’d never otherwise encounter when she feels that her baby’s life is in danger. That’s the way it’s SUPPOSED to be (I told myself), and I have a feeling you might be surprised to see a side of yourself you didn’t know existed if your child’s safety had been threatened.

I can’t imagine you angry either, by the way!! But I bet you have it in you!

Carol