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[holly]

I am only a member of 3 other forums. I was thinking if you guys are on any other forums. It would be so funny if I catch to you on other ones?

I dont reply on the other ones because to be honest some people can be quiet mean, but this one seems pretty placid.

Mind you, I plan to make this my main one, if thats cool with you all :P

[Mad Old Cow]

Holly i am only a member here at AFW & everyone is wonderful here

[Heather]

I am on another two....but enjoy it here too much some days.

[Cherie]

Yes we are great...lots of fun. :D
Welcome Holly.:waves:

[dragonfly97]

i am on one other forum but i love it here

[redrobyn]

I'm on one other but this is my favourite.

[Supa]

I am a member of quiet a few but they have different themes, as I am on a business one, a craft one, a sewing only one, an embroidery one, a mums one & of course AFW ;)

[Mesmereyes]

I am only onthis one and dont think i would go else where, am loving it on here.

[kgg]

I am on a couple of wedding forums from when I was planning my wedding a year ago, besides that this is the only one.

[maryls]

I am on a couple of forums as well but don't find communication as forthcoming as here.
I am greatful for the wonderful support shown to me eventhough I have been her a very short time
But I must say I am loving it

[lizisme]

Am on a couple of other forums - ones a travel forum and another is one that is mainly women from USA. This one is fast becoming my favourite.

[holly]

Am on a couple of other forums - ones a travel forum and another is one that is mainly women from USA. This one is fast becoming my favourite.

I can see why. We have been setting up my new computer and I have had withdrawls and I have only like 15 posts or something :bdance:

[djmastermum]

Only about 3 forums for me for me. don't get to the others as much as AFW.

[Stormy]

I doubt you would see me elsewhere Holly....not unless you're a keen environmentalist :)

[babs]

I am a few cross stitch ones, travel forums, crafts forums, anything else that catches my eye.

I like the ones that you can chat with instantly. instead of leaving messages.

[Cherie]

Thats why I like this one babs. There is always somebody on here.:D

[Rachel]

I am only a member of this one although I have had a look on a few parenting one's but they just seem to big and scary for me!

[lucyloo]

This one is the one and only for me. All my spare time is on here (and I don't have much). Its hard to imagine not having AFW in my life. Everybody are like real friends, and I haven't met anyone face to face as yet!:)

[Cherie]

Oh Lucyness :hehe:
What town are you in or near? Maybe one of us might be passing through one day.:D

[nj27au]

I'm on a couple of tv forums and one other one....plus this one.

[jaylar]

I was on a lot of Women's Sites, (mentioned that in the tech area)
and let me tell you, you have to journey there with caution.

There are none that I would recommend right now.

I feel very odd saying this, because I used to belong...and I mean
daily posting, on over twelve women's sites.

Although I am an absolute newbie, so far, this site has all the
qualities of the best...

[miss kiki]

i'm on two others, but i don't go on them. just this one. :)

[kat311299]

I being to 6 forum and one of them is shawn friend's car forum but the best one is All For Women that my favourite forum

[kimba]

I am amember of qiute a few but I mainly am on here and another chat one every day and a scrapbooking one every few days:)

[fussybluu]

I'm on 2 forums, the other one is a recipes forum
as i enjoy trying out new recipes and i do a lot of cooking
And this one which so far I like and everyone is very friendley.:)

[miss kiki]

i can't see myself not being on here..so i'm going to be like 65 and still on here i suppose! :hehe: maybe one day i'll be the number one top poster..who knows! :D

[Bondage]

I'm on a lot of forums.. I have a lot of free time now.. I mainly go to TWH.. But I'm getting a little bored of that one, and it seems to have been getting slow lately..

[PreSchool Mama]

I am a member at two - AFW and a working mom s forum. I just got a reminder yesterday asking me to visit another forum I had joined back in the day, but I probably won't. It seems to have too many judgmental people there.

The last this you want when you go to a forum is to have people tell you you're' a bad mom because you don't do things exactly the way they do.

[jaylar]

I know what you mean about judgemental; what knocks me off a
site is when they are all stuck into some insanity and you aren't
even allowed to ignore it... you have to agree.

On the site with the sick sexual practice? I avoided the
thread. I asked the Mod to close it...she did, then the
owner reinstated, and has the
NERVE TO WRITE ME AN EMAIL
to tell me that I should keep my Opinions to myself...
EXCUSE ME?

On a Message Board and I am to keep my opinions to myself?
Uh huh. Of course the owner engages in the sick practice..
...that's the thing that sends me off an MB...

You may think anything you want no matter how politically
incorrect or superstitious...that is your right.

I was on a forum the other day in which I had mentioned
using Vicks Vapo Rub on my Baby.

They lined up to have me charged with murder (virtually).

My Baby got married in September. Obviously the Vicks
didn't kill her. My mother used it on me, I used it on all
three of my children.

In my day, (the Pliestocine) Doctors told mothers to
put a little vaseline on their finger, use a little
vaporub on the baby's chest and back so she can
breathe easier.

The way those women on the site acted, if I had lived
in America I would be locked up for Child Abuse.

It's that kind of thing that runs me off a Forum.

One of the things with kids is that you have to do what
works. Every child is different. A mother knows her
own child.

[jeanieinparadise]

Goodness - I didn't realise Vicks Vaporub was a capital offence? My child gets it chest, back, neck and feet - and has to thank goodness I don't follow my grandmother's old remedy and put it up her nose and make her eat it (then again, can't recall grandma having a cold.)

Oops - I forgot to add my bit on forums. I started on a forum about 7 years ago that was wonderful - at least, I never noticed things that were possibly going on, but I was a bit pollyanna! When it closed I saw how forum politics could get, as it went through four incarnations in the next six months and some ended in tears!

I am currently on 3 other forums in addition to this one. An Australian Solo Parents one that is wonderfully supportive and the final incarnation of the above - also great, but there are still some wounds from the fallout 3 years later - both of these I know the participants very well and are fairly small and chatty. I am on a Bloggers Forum but don't contribute much as everyone seems far more "into" it than I can afford (timewise) to be.

I have generally found this board to be friendly and approachable, but it is so big and busy that I don't get to it as often as I should as I know the time will vanish!

[jaylar]

This is the point exactly!

Some idiot comes up with this VICKS IS BAD
crap, and when you try to explain your mother
used it on you, you used it on your children,
that doesn't change their opinion that you
should be locked up for child abuse.

[Cherie]

Gee if it wasn't for Vick's ..I don't know how I would have gotten through the night on many occassions when I was young. I used to put it up my nose, rub it on my back and chest as well....Great stuff.

[Naomi]

Apparently it's true :dk: It says so on the packet. We use the baby balsam for our kids though I have used the adult stuff on Hugo a couple of times.

I'll tell you who it IS bad for, though ... sofas and wool rugs :headh: (actually, maybe that's why it's bad to use on kids - because if the kids get a hold of it and smear it everywhere, it is Not A Pretty Sight).

[jaylar]

What I have come to notice, in the past few years, is that even
products designed for babies have these warnings on them due to
some insanity that currently exists in America.

America is a very peculair country. Apparently, drug companies
can bribe folks to certify their crap as safe, advertise it on
T.V. get millions of people to take it, and then seven years
or so, the studies come out that the drug is either harmful,
useless, or has side effects worse than the symptoms it is
trying to treat.

Tried and true methods are often subject to warnings
and all sorts of propaganda.

I certainly would not let a baby, even a week old, suffer
congestion when I can clear their lungs with VICKS. I've
used it on my children, it was used on me.

I'll be very honest, I ignore a lot of 'medical' advice.
I check the information myself on the Internet, and before
there was an internet in books.

I recall when my second son was born they were telling me
about this 'billirubin'. So I went into the Doctor's office
took her book, read what it was, and took my child out of
the hospital.

As he got married in 2005 he apparently didn't die in infantcy.

[maryls]

What a load of HOO HA about VICKS
I used vicks on my daughters and they are still alive and funnily enough I am alive as my mother used vicks on me and my grandmother used vicks and she died at the age of 85
It is a real shame that everything these days cause some form of illness.
Whatever happened to "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
These days the children are wrapped so tightly with cotton wool they can barely breath and then people wonder why when they hit puberty/teenagers they go off the rails
I am lucky to live in the country where I believe kids can be kids because if you live in the large city children grown up way too fast.
My girlfriends teenage daughters are a prime example dress way older than they are and start drinking and smoking at an early age, leave school early, get involved in drugs etc.
I am not saying that some country kids are in anyway much different but it doesn't seem to happen as quickly.

[miss kiki]

i don't think it has to do much with the location-but with the people and also how the parents raise their kids. there's no way in hell becca will be dressing a few years older and all. i remember being a teen and wearing clothes on top of clothes so my mom wouldn't know what i was wearing, but then again i know all the tricks, lol, and i won't just let it slide either. i'm happy becca still plays with her barbies and all-most kids in her grade don't anymore..they all have cell phones as if they really have so much of a social life at 9 to talk on the phone for more than 5 minutes-just my opinion obviously..sorry, went off topic a bit! lol.

[jaylar]

Yes Kiki! The creature didn't know what hit her.
I knew all the tricks, many of them, she never discovered...
poor thing.

The thing is not to say a word.

The Creature went into orbit around a horrid brat named Steffie. Obnoxious Mother
some Belgium female who thought she was better than everyone else, and tried
to become my friend.

Anyway, Steffie was 9, had this horrible show off birthday party where she publically
snubbed my Creature. I pretended I didn't see...because you know what happens
when Mama says;
"I don't want you to play with that awful Steffie."

----Steffie, ya know what my mother said?-----

So I didn't say a word. If my child was so stupid as not to see this other
child using her, hey...

Anyway during the year there were a number of invitations from Steffie's
mother for my child to sleep over, to spend the weekend, which I didn't
bother to transmit.

Steffie's 10th birth day party.

So I say to the Creature; "Steffie's party is Saturday..."

She looks at me...

"YOu're not going."

And then I drop the bomb of the snubbing I saw a year ago.

"Mama I didn't know you saw it..."

"I'm the Mother. I see everything."

And then I went into lecture #142; How not to let people use you.

My favourite tho' was the 'going to the library to study' on Saturday.

So she leaves at 10 to take the bus to the library.
I get on the motorcycle about 10:30. I reach just in time to see her
and her friends walking up the road. I stop.

"The library is behind you." I say.

[romana]

I was on another forum but I kept having trouble logging on, etc. and it was not very personal.
This by far is the best!:yes:

[Chockygirl]

I belong to another forum and when I went travelling last year,I actually met up with about 20 different women from the site in Canada,U.S. and England.:nana::nana:
It was so much fun to met up in person.:jump:

Do you have gatherings here-are there many women in Melbourne?:tree:

[LoveMyFamily]

I'm a member of one other and post heaps on there. I don't know if I'd find time to be a member of that many forums and manage to keep up with them and everything else! Good on you though hehe.

Things get heated a little on the other, but so long as there's no name-calling or anything of the likes, there's nothing wrong with a healthy, heated debate :)

[redrobyn]

Chockygirl we have a post where we have the the different states arranging meets, if you have a look the Melbourne girls have one coming up in june.

[Chockygirl]

Ooooh,that sounds like fun.:jump:
Could you point me to the relevant thread please?

[miss kiki]

if you go on the home page, scroll down and you'll see AFW Local, which has the places and has threads on meets. :)

[Chockygirl]

if you go on the home page, scroll down and you'll see AFW Local, which has the places and has threads on meets. :)Oh,thanks;found it!!:jump:

[miss kiki]

no problem. :)