A need to protect? Not so much.

It's more a need to educate.

Apparently some people confuse a desire to 'discuss' things or a desire for more 'education' with a desire to 'coddle'.  FYI, really, I'm not a coddler.  Ask my kids, and if I'd coddle anybody?  It would be them-love them more than anybody and anything, and I do my best to protect and care for them.  But I know they are sometimes going to trip, they'll fall, and when I see it happening, I don't immediately leap to kiss their every bruise.  If they get up on their...