I keep hearing “when will we see change?” What change are you looking for? Gun-free zones encourage shootings. It’s not debatable. It’s fact. Gun free cities have the highest gun violence. Again, not debatable. So what changes are needed? I live in a rural area. It is not the police that protect me and my family. It…

Replace “republicans” with “politicians”. We the sheeple of America get the leaders we deserve. People aren’t shooting people because guns are suddenly more available. It’s because hate is stoked on every side. Being a peacemaker is seen as weak and until we glorify peacemaking and collaboration over divisive thinking…

Thank you. Our son is skilled in ways most aren’t but he excels in compassion. He truly “feels” the pain of others and is always asking “Why did he do that?” if in a movie someone gets hit. He will then tell me how the other character could have done something different so there would “not be any fighting.” At the IEP…

My son remembers everything. He’s only nine and will remind me of a funny joke I said once when he was 4 or 5 to get me to laugh. He is a GPS. Once he goes somewhere he never forgets it. He gets frustrated when he tells us something that happened years ago and we will remember it differently. After checking several…

My son has a photographic memory. He genuinely cares about the feelings of everyone he meets, even complete strangers. But people just see his nervous ticks or that he can’t sit still for 30+ minutes or that he asks the same question 5 times in the same hour.  But I will take my kind and beautiful boy over any other…

We adopted our son and he has ADHD and a few other capital letter acronym labels. But what was amazing for us to learn was that he is not less than. I know all parents will say this of their child, but it’s true. The brain capacity is there just shifted. He likes to have things planned out ahead of time and will ask…

“partners”

It will get better with age. When you start to realize people are basically selfish creatures and need to give up expecting others to be better. If they do then you celebrate the achievement with them, but when they don’t you tell them that they can do better and encourage them.  It comes down to self esteem really. …

good for you.  when you try empathy it tends to help calm your own anger and see ways to help rather than escalate.  thank you for adulting today.

I like the bumper sticker “Not my circus, not my problem” We seem to get wound up because poisonous people won’t stop being poisonous.  A snake is a snake and just because it won’t be a flubby bunny is no reason to get angry.

it’s because you deserve better and their failure to treat you that way is not a failure on your part. Some people are like clouds. When they leave the sun comes out. My wife never found peace for the decades of mistreatment from her mother until she forgave her and truly didn’t care about the woman’s opinion any…

You don’t have to be a victim or be weak. Being meek is not weak. Turing the other cheek is what needs to be done but you don’t have to be a victim and allow bad behavior. The goal is to truly be in control of yourself and not grant the power to make you angry or feel miserable to anyone else, especially one that has…

well said.  judge others by their choices not by what group you think they belong to.

uhm that can be said about the left as well. free speech is only allowed if agreed upon it seems. Universities used to be places of debate and discussion. Now they are full of children being told their being offended by everything is an acceptable reaction.

unfortunately gender is maulable it seems now a days.

But when does that stop? I’m not going to allow you to purchase my services because I don’t like <insert anything here>. Being gay is something you do, not what you are. Sorry if that offends people but there it is. Being black or asian or latino or white is what you are. Being male or female is what you are. Being…

I wish I had a dollar for every time I was called a racist online. LOL! If they could see me they’d feel as stupid as they sound.

how about us in the middle who’d like those at the far ends just shut up.

i surely hope you are under the age of 19.  It’s the only excuse you could have for being so childish.