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i LOVE this! how awesome to hear about the site coming in useful like this before the problem arose! thanks so much for posting that.
i don't have a cool example like yours, but i was in a bookstore the other day and there was a mom who was really having a day. she had 3 (at least) littles, a wrapped moby baby, a toddler and a little fellow of 4 or 5. the mobile fellows were SO excited about the bookstore and its halloween decorations, and she was soooooooooo frustrated with them. there was a lot of sub-vocal hissing, arm-dragging, and random yelling. it would have been awfully easy to judge (and who doesn't, for good or ill, at least to some extent), but geez, the kids were so adorable and really basically well-mannered. as she descended on one little guy in the aisle where i was browsing he looked up in excitement at her to show her what he'd found, and his face just dropped when he saw hers. 'i'm sorry, mommy,' he wailed, and kept repeating it as he was hauled off, mommy growling 'it's NOT okay!'
i had a few moments of amusement picturing the spectrum of responses this mom (or someone posting about her) would get.
i gave her a bright sympathetic smile when i caught her eye at one point, which she did not reciprocate. sometimes sympathy from a stranger is just not what you want, is it? i thought her moppets were adorable anyway, and that she's probably an awesome mom.
:) khairete
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I found that I post fewer questions on this site because it has become as critical as real life.

Sometimes it's the very thing you don't want to hear, that you need to hear. One plus of a forum is that we don't know you, we only know your written word and often times that all anyone needs to 'hear'. Of course sometimes the written word can come out all wrong, and can be misconstrued. lol Forums have the plus and minuses...just like anything else.

Glad you and the teach are on good terms and coming up with a plan together.

Even on-line "friends" can talk you off the cliff...and back down to rational thinking. That's what friends are for. There for support!

I have found that for the most part, people are inherently good. We all have bad days and sometimes people get a glimpse of us at our lowest point or we see them at their lowest point. We all have struggles. Sometimes we just need to take a step back and give conflicts a day to rest..then approach it when we are not dealing with it solely out of emotion or embarrassment.

Glad things worked out for the best!