There are several women at our church who are very rude to me and my DD5 (if you remember we adopted her 2 years ago from Russia). The two main ones both have children and my DD adores both of their kids! She always runs to them and wants to greet them and the mothers sometimes react with a sort of "don't hurt my baby" attitude. AS IF she is going to mow them down!

I've come to the conclusion that at least part of the problem is jealousy. DD got A LOT of attention when she came home in 2003. People "made" over her all the time. And she is a big-time people-person, so she just goes up and talks to everyone at church, making them exclaim "oh, isn't she so cute?!". OK, I've never said this before here, but she is beautiful. I didn't have anything genetic to do with it, so I guess I can say that. But, seriously, I have complete strangers come up to me in stores and tell me that my daughter is "beautiful, just beautiful".

That being said, I say don't worry about it. If someone doesn't want to be around my child, they don't want to be around me. She can be annoying and overbearing at times, but guess what? So can most people!

Just my $.02!

Vonnie