Yes. Some things really are just too painful. As for my children, my daughter is in preschool and last year, in pre-k 4, I had to step in because of what I call "girl meanness" and social bullying. Some people, friends of mine, have been very laissez-faire about the whole thing, intimating that perhaps my own experiences are making me too sensitive to my daughter "taking her knocks". A part of me wonders if that's true but the other part is incensed that anyone would minimize the pain of children just because they are little and the bullies don't know any better. Hello? Teaching moment, assholes! This is a topic very close to my heart. Thank you for bringing it up.
