Motherhood part Deux

Motherhood is filled with so much joy and wonder, yet......oh the heartache. When the natural instinct of a mother is to protect and love and shelter from all the bad in the world, it's quite hard to swallow when she has to be the one to administer the unpleasantness sometimes that is necessary to learn and grow. Even though life is so much based on choice and consequence, it's hard to watch a child suffer those consequenses. There's the part of you that feels strong and proud that you love your child enough to do the right thing and yet there's the part that hurts and wants to rescue them. I'm smart enough and have seen enough to know that a child that is constantly rescued has a gloomy future. However, that knowledge doesn't really make it that much easier. *sigh*