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I have to say that I'm not at all surprised to hear that so many of us have to censor ourselves due to our readers. What does that say about our authenticity on our blogs? I'm not trying to be controversial; I'm simply examining what this "blogging" thing means to me and how I should be approaching it. It does sound like the majority of us are censoring ourselves. Again, this is not good. Does this mean that we are stifling our true thoughts and feelings?  Read more >

Last night was tough. I can honestly say that it was terrible. We felt terrible as parents. We will not make that threat ever again since we never intended to enforce it in the first place. The good news (sort of) is that the reason for his behavior was that he was suffering the effects of a cold. After writing my post, I went in to check on him expecting him to be pouting in his bed but instead I found a mildly warm passed-out kid. He was exhausted. I knew there had to be a good reason for his erratic and uncharacteristic behavior.  Read more >