Can we all PLEASE take a step back from our computers.

While you're taking a step back take some deep breaths in, thru your nose...slowly...fill your lungs all the way up...close your eyes...breathing in good thoughts...about your children, first kiss if it was good...magical moments that make your heart skip a beat...slowly, ever so slowly open your mouth and exhale...

Please if you find yourself getting upset by a thread, instead of posting to it, maybe we can breathe and know that not all of us are perfect Mamas...all of us try day in and day out to do our very best. Sometimes we struggle and isn't that what this board is for? For support during the struggling times and smiles for when we are at our best.

I have almost been brought to tears by how some of the Mamas have been treated. Do we really HAVE to post if we disagree? I know we all want our opinion heard, but at what cost?

We are your sisters...I am your sister...we may not do everything the same...but we are more alike than different...let us not forget and let us not stop learning from one another.

Please I ask you with my heart full of love for you, take a step back, breath deep. It will help with so many things! Use birth breathing...it is so cleansing, powerful, healing and it works.

I know some of you may roll your eyes or think I'm a crazy hippie, but I ask you to go past that and just see I'm a friend trying to make this place better.

Love and peace to you~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Please help keep this bumped :)

ITA Mama! :thumbsup:

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Very good advice! :thumbsup:

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Here, here.. I second that.

Debby

and I third it!:thumbsup:

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Well said Mama!:thumbsup:

Wow, I've been gone since Friday and saw Amy's post, now this one.
Obviously while I've been gone something's happened.

This is the season for giving, loving and caring mamas....
And remember , the is the internet!!!!!

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:heart: I agree

well said mama :thumbsup:
much love
-Lindsey

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So well said! Blessings, Angela

a bump and an AMEN!!

personally, i've always liked crazy hippies :)

but i have to say, i think it's important that this be a safe haven for the expression of opinion, whether it is popular opinion or not. respectful is always better, in my view, that an ugly opinion, but i just hope we won't evolve into a community that has to self-censor in order to be harmonious.

you may disagree with me, and i respect your right to do so ;-)

I agree!:)

I agree with you Joyce :)

I was just trying to say that if one is very upset or po'd that maybe instead of posting we can let it slide. Or shift that energy into cleaning our homes or going on a brisk walk. Maybe I'm just an idealist ;)

I have some opinions that would NOT be very popular around here, so I just stay out of those converstations.

I agree we should be able to post our opinions- absolutely -but I'm asking at what cost? ykwim? Sometimes I'm not so eloquent with words, so I don't post TONS-- I just don't want to come across in a way I didn't intend. yk?

There is no easy answer that is for sure :)

I totally agree! I took this last fiasco as a reminder that life is TOO short, and I'm talking about physical "real" life.

The last couple of days my kiddos and I have been sewing, playing and making Christmas ornaments. :)

Just bumping because I think many of us need to re-read the OP. :D

That was so beautifully put!! Thanks!:)

Well put!!!

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a little bump :)

I couldn't agree with you more! :thumbsup:

Wow, I'm so happy this resurfaced.

Hope you all have a wonderful day!!!

~~~Hugs to you all~~~

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Amen!

Peace,

Amy

This got buried to the third or fourth page now so I thought I'd bump it back up. :thumbsup: GREAT post!

Right on, mama!:)

I haven't seen anything since I joined about a month and a half ago, but have heard it can get bad. I think it's encouraging to me to have come across this thread before a dirty one.

Hugs to any mamas (or the rare papa) who have been hurt here.

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Before I hit that reply button I make sure I wouldn't have a problem with my kids reading my words ;)

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I got this in a forward, and I usually just roll my eyes (they always say to forward it to everyone, and if you get it back you know who your true friends are. Puhlease)

Anyway, I thought this was so appropriate I just had to post it.

There once was a little boy who had a bad
temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails
and told him that every time he lost his
temper, he must hammer a nail into the back
of the fence. The first day the boy had
driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next
few weeks, as he learned to control his
anger, the number of nails hammered daily
gradually dwindled down. He discovered
it was easier to hold his temper than to
drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the boy didn't
lose his temper at all. He told his father
about it and the father suggested that the
boy now pull out one nail for each day that
he was able to hold his temper.
The days passed and the young boy was finally
able to tell his father that all the nails
were gone. The father took his son by the
hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You
have done well, my son, but look at the
holes in the fence. The fence will never be
the same. When you say things in anger,
they leave a scar just like this one. You
can put a knife in a man and draw it out.
It won't matter how many times you say I'm
sorry, the wound is still there. "

Originally posted by mikifrogspapa
I got this in a forward, and I usually just roll my eyes (they always say to forward it to everyone, and if you get it back you know who your true friends are. Puhlease)


I hate those forwards, too. But this wa a nice little parable. Thanks for sharing.

Robin

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Well said. Thanks for posting this. ITA. I find myself staying away more and more these days because of some of the hateful things that get said. There is enough pain, suffering,hate, and sorrow in the world. We don't need to create more.