The Mama Bear Phenomenon: The Primal Urge to Protect

Some call it the “mama bear” instinct—that deep, visceral, almost uncontrollable urge to rise up in defense of your child when they are wronged.

I don’t know the proper term for it, but I can assure you, as a mother of five children aged 14 to 22, this phenomenon is very, very real.

Few things send my blood pressure skyrocketing faster than hearing that …