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Sometimes it’s as simple as a kind word

I’m a Sisterhood of the Motherhood Partner and was compensated for this post. All thoughts are our own. Many times, OK, quite often, my wife is correct. Husbands, it’s OK for you to say that, ditto the wives out there, your husband is quite often, correct. We were at the dinner table the other day with the children when I sarcastically entered into a conversation that we needed to have. I forget what started it, but the crux of the conversation was simply telling the other one something nice about them.

We say ‘please’, ‘thank you’ and other pleasantries around the house. That’s just basic manners that we want our children to learn after us. To quote the wrestling philosopher, Ric Flair, ‘talk the talk, walk the walk’.

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Cyber bullying & Facebook: How To Protect Your Child

If the internet is good at one thing, it’s allowing people to fake their identities. After all, with just a few clicks of the button, bullies can create an entire fake profile and completely hide who they are while attacking a victim…

…or can they?

In the last few years, Facebook has introduced a number of new features, and it’s easier than ever before to shut down anonymous bullies and force them to come into the open.

Taking Control of the Privacy Settings

Like many social networks, Facebook prefers to have users spread their content as widely and publicly as possible – but while things often start public, they don’t have to remain that way.

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Judge not lest you be judged, in theory and reality #SisterhoodUnite #ad

We were compensated for this post. Having said that, all thoughts are our own. I judged someone on social media one. It was for the silliest of reasons too for someone who I never met, Renee Zellwegger. It was right after she appeared with a drastically different face, remember that? I was filled with righteous indignation about how her new look would do something or another causing harm to society and the tectonic plates underneath Oklahoma and California. A couple hours after I wrote it I took it down. Sure I had a right to judge her, just as she has a right to judge me; but, neither action would do any good, nor promote anything positive. Stop judging is one of the thoughts behind the #SisterhoodUnite campaign at Similac now. If you’ve got a positive story about your parent experience go there now and share it!

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How Abby lost a leg, but gained a life and made ours better

I’m thinking about a teenager who I’ve never met. I don’t know anything about them other than the fact that they were almost hit by a car about 12 years ago. Were it not for a flat coat retriever and her love of children that car would’ve hit that child. It’s a dog story so unbelievable I wouldn’t give it a second glance, had we not lived with the dog for 12 years.

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What if you died today?

I don’t mean that as a threat or an ultimatum, but rather, what if you were the victim of a tragic accident and killed today? Don’t get me wrong, I’m an incredibly optimistic person. I never obsess about the worst case scenario. I do, however; acknowledge that it could occur, but I factor in all possible outcomes and accept that it will be one of those. The worst case and the best case normally don’t happen, it’s somewhere in the middle. But what if you, or I, never came home again to see our loved ones?

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Drive an exotic sports car on a racetrack near Atlanta, really

Cars are expensive. Exotic sports cars are even more expensive. Driving an exotic sports car is something that I, along with most of my friends have wanted to do. As most (see: none) of our friends have an Aston Martin, McLaren, Lamborghini or Ferrari that they’ll let us rip wide open I guess it’s up to Xtreme Xperience to put me in the driver’s seat.

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A Tribute to The Ramones and their influence on me

When my husband was about 12 or 13 years old he found his love for the Ramones. Simple and direct, they were a 50’s 60’s rock band with punk overtones. His analysis of their medium known works is not always punk-but also hard-rock with 50’s sensibilities. He even saw The Ramones in concert twice during the mid 80s in Charlotte NC.

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7 years ago I married my best friend-Happy Anniversary~!

Children are the barometers of life. Just as the high pressure system brings certain weather, when children hit a certain age parents have a vague expectation of what to expect. Before our family weather system started there was a marriage; the date that started the union which begets the anniversary and a series of reminders on Google weeks prior to that special day.

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