Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
Ana - I'm with you and Way. Definitely inappropriate. I had my kids, still kept up with my education and friends, and work, hopes and dreams. What is she going to expect from that child in the future? Scares me.
Daughter, in high school, psychology course about children and families, project about parenting styles. Online (night school) presentation.
One girl went on and on and on and on and on about how appreciative she is of her mother, who, at 20, single, gave up her friends, gave up her education, gave up her career aspirations, gave up all her hopes and dreams to have her.
The teacher enthusiastically applauded their closeness, open and honest relationship. While my head filled with alarm bells.
My daughter asked me not to contact the teacher, as there’s only one class left. I’ll keep my worms sealed in their can.
I hope this girl finds a supportive group if she finds herself struggling to balance her own life and her mother’s.
My Privacy settings were all undone.
People who refuse to limit the length of their posts and are new to the forum should not take it personally if I cannot take on their sorrows. Others can help them. imo.
I reset my privacy settings, all is well.
I've discovered another glitch - I tried scrolling older posts on my news feed and it will not load anything older than May 12, it just keeps reloading that page when I hit the see more button at the bottom of the feed 🤔
Thank you. You have given me & many others much good & sensible advice.
You see the truth & speak it. XX
I believe Alva said she was "walking away". I hope she comes back.
You're exactly right. There's more to being supportive of people then just telling them how great they are. Or commiserating with them about how lousy and unfair their circumstances are.
While both are part of being supportive, this is not all. Being supportive also means being straight up with people for their own good.
Calling them out when they refuse to take even one tiny step forward to help themselves and improve their situation in the slightest way.
Being supportive also means telling a person when they are playing the victim or being a martyr.
In plain language I guess everything I've mentioned falls under an umbrella coverage of plainly calling people out on their BS.
If this site has a problem with honesty, then this group should make a different group.
I wanted to point out a false statement that was in the editorial as well as how past articles in this newspaper were very slanted towards one side of the issue and would cherry pick certain aspects of the issue , thus perpetuating the divide .
By the time they butcher edited my letter they had it completely turned around that I agreed with the writer of the editorial on the issue . which I did not. They printed this awful letter with my name on it. I then wrote another letter to the editor regarding the fact that their editing totally changed the message in my letter . That letter of course was not printed . It was ignored totally .
It becomes absurd, because then the only permissible things to write on the forum, are like:
"poor, poor you"
"you're so great OP"
"you're such a victim in all of this"
"you're doing all the right things OP"
"there isn't a single thing you're doing wrong"
etc.
This site takes down whole paragraphs. I've had everything I've written on a thread removed bt the admins with no explanation whatsoever.
I can only speculate why. The people running the place may find plain language and being truthful "offensive". Who knows?
That is not the AC Admins fault, I am sure. 🤣
It’s certainly possible. Would be interesting to know if that is the case.
I agree with you on changing words.
If words are changed or deleted it can change the context of the message.
As you say, these aren’t words that are derogatory or offensive, so why should they be censored?
I appreciate your feedback.