Am I being too sensitive?

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My little boy is 2 (3 end of March) and train obsessed. We have fully embraced this… lots of miniature railway visits, thomasland, brio, endless thomas books / toys / tv etc going on our local train…

We do other things but even then he turns it into a train game, for example he snapped a cracker in two pieces yesterday to make an ‘engine’ and a ‘carriage’, if we go to playgroup he immediately goes to the brio, in gymplay instead of making a tower like most kids with the blocks he of course made a train, with a funnel, wheels, connecting rods, coupling link! (Terms I didn’t know until becoming a Mum)

Anyway we had some annual leave so planned a day trip to York train museum. I saw my friend the day before, told her of our trip. Next time I saw her, she fed back her fiancé had said ‘God they push trains on that kid don’t they’ … and started to laugh.

Now I’m shocked at how much this has upset me, I think it’s the judgement of my parenting, the layers of Mum guilt when you think you are doing your best. They don’t know or spend much time with my Son to know his obsession, and I feel now I want to prove to them, I’m not pushing I’m embracing! It just upset me… I’m 31 weeks pregnant and don’t know if I am just being overly sensitive to a flippant comment. I felt like retaliating with ‘well you do things with them when you don’t just sit in the pub’ but I didn’t - and they are actually fabulous parents to their 14 month old!

Now this is written down maybe I am being too sensitive, but I almost feel guarded to share my days with him that involve trains, or question myself that I am doing too much?

Sounds like you maybe need some 🍫 abd an early night OP. I would try and not let it upset you, whatever you do, someone will have an opinion

@SiouxsieSiouxStiletto thank you! Even writing it down helped! 😊

Don't worry.

The implication is that he doesn't like them, but you have forced it.

You know that isn't true.

And it's pretty hard to persuade a 2yo something is interesting them when it's not.
Ds at that age was planes. Specifically Red Arrows with Concorde thrown in. Of course we did a lot of things around planes because he loved them. If he hadn't been interested then he'd have not wanted to know and days out round them would have been a right pain.
Tbf he's 16yo and still finds them interesting.

You’re exploring your child’s interest and I think it’s absolutely brilliant. Good for you Mumma. Hope your feeling better x

@MargaretThursday very good point! Not interested in playing with jigsaws tonight as he was distracted by trains 🤣 that’s interesting your son is still interested now. Thank you for the kind words 😊