Do they affect you greatly?
I used to just get sad, but now I have a visceral reaction. There is a really tragic story on my local news site about a brother and sister. I can't stop thinking about it and I feel sick imagining them and what their family must be going through. So crazy tragic. It's literally blowing my mind.
pomegranate / 3729 posts
I know exactly what you are talking about and I have totally avoided it because I just can't stomach reading about that kind of stuff anymore. I feel like this year we have had SO MANY sick local stories about kids and babies and it just breaks my heart.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
I avoid it if I can... DH and I get so angry. SO SO angry. SO SO sad
grapefruit / 4671 posts
It completely freaks me out now. Everytime I see an awful story, I grab DD and hold her tight:(
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
I get very emotional, especially with abuse stories...I need to stop reading them beacuse they affect me deeper than I care to admit.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
I feel very desensitized towards news in general, now that I think of it.
cantaloupe / 6885 posts
@mrs. wagon: @bpcmarj: I just saw that story on the local news and it made me sick to my stomach. I try and avoid them if all possible. Just too sad 
pineapple / 12053 posts
Before I had DD, I thought, oh, that's sad, but now I cry and have immediate reactions of sadness and wanting to wake up DD an hug her.
grapefruit / 4066 posts
Yes, I can barely watch or read the news anymore because sad stories about kids deeply effect me. I obsess over them and cry and just feel so horrible.
@mrs. wagon: I haven't heard about that story as I tend to stay away from the news...what happened?? Although I am not sure if I want to know..
honeydew / 7811 posts
@mrs. wagon: not even just news stories. But totally fake situations in movies too! I can't handle anything anymore!
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
@NovBaby1112: brother and sister got locked in a hope chest that didn't open from the inside... there was a tv on high volume near them... the family found them at 8pm and they were both gone youngest 2 children of a family with 5 children, both under age 10.
kiwi / 612 posts
Yes, I can't handle any of those kind of stories...I used to feel sad, now I feel like I was punched in the stomach.
I just don't understand how anybody could think it's ok to hurt a child
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
@mrs. wagon: I just read that story. Oh my god. How horrible.
In general yeah, stories about kids affect me even more now. Even fictional movies. I can't handle anything.
grapefruit / 4819 posts
Yeah, I turn into an emotional basket case every time I see a sad story on the news. These things affect me so much more now that I'm a mum. We had a story on the news last night about a four year old walking through a park with her mum when a large branch of an old tree snapped off and fell on them. It killed the little girl and paralysed the mum from the waist down. The funeral was yesterday and I was sobbing my eyes out. DH made me turn the television off but it still haunted me all night,
Now that I know what it's like to love a child, I can't bear the thought of anything every happening to one of my kids. Sunshine and rainbows news stories for me from now one, I can't take the rest of it!
pear / 1718 posts
oh gosh, all these stories are heart wrenching. Yes, having a LO makes so many news stories, especially ones about children or parents, unbearable to think about.
cantaloupe / 6164 posts
Totally. I've cried watching the news. There was a story with video footage of a nanny on a nannycam harrassing a 10-month-old, and I couldn't even watch the video. I had to change it immediately... I felt like I was going to throw up.
pear / 1823 posts
Yeah, I can't handle awful news stories about kids. They get stuck in my head and haunt me. I can't read books that deal with it either.
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