<p>Achat, I know you are right, but I was REALLY grouchy a few days ago...besides Everyone and No One settles most arguments!!</p>
<p>These boards are mostly just people being helpful to each other, and the infrequency of acrimony makes it worth noting!!</p>
<p>Well, far be it from me to stir up controversy but I think the mods are the reason this board is not acrimonious. CC Paretn's Forum does have an interesting group of people. I like reading the posts. But along with the talent and drive of many posters, there can be unhealthy tendancies, obsessive tendancies. C'mon. You know I'm talkin' to YOU! ;) (And me).</p>
<p>Anyway, had the "prestige" girl posted that thread on the parent's forum she could have expected the negative comments. Since she posted them on a kid forum and was merely quoted, it was a bit of an unfair attack from left field.</p>
<p>Don't know about you, but I have counselled kids to contact the mods to take down inappropriate threads before they get flamed into the ground--but I did not contact them about lindsey.</p>
<p>What do you think about bio, a boy with huge challenges, posting and posting?</p>
<p>"A bit of an unfair attack" - That's certainly an interesting way to put it, since the post was not even one made on this website, much less this forum.</p>
<p>The mods were contacted by another poster on the Parents Forum and the thread was deleted once I found this thread where I had been "flamed into the ground" and posted a response. </p>
<p>Certainly impressive how mature parents can be sometimes.</p>
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<p>Cheers - I feel for bio. I don't know what we can do to help him. I think people are right to tell him to leave cc and go for help with wetware (what software guys call people). Because his troubles have certainly not gotten better during his time on cc.</p>
<p>Lindsey - You didn't really think that parents were always "adults"....</p>
<p>To all. When I first read this thread just now I felt a sigh of relief akin to how I feel when I stand up from a too-heated family dinner table and go sit in the living room with a book. You know, how when two people are going at it and gradually the others start to drift away, or start to have small chat with eachother?</p>
<p>Maybe we could keep this thread generally supportive and light-hearted and in the vein of, "gosh aren't people all different..."</p>
<p>Well...I didn't flame you above or in the mentioned post. In fact, I defended you both times. So please. Don't flame me.</p>
<p>Also, I don't know you but you appear to be a regular poster. Is it smart to jump into this conversation--a parent's conversation? After all, this is about acrimonious posts. It's not about YOU--but it may well turn that way if you jump in with flames.</p>
<p>Cheers - I wasn't flaming you at all. Not in any way whatsoever. </p>
<p>However, I did find it very impressive that a mother brought the issue into this thread, which I did feel justified a response.</p>
<p>Well...it certainly felt like a flame. </p>
<p>And the last post feels like you are itching to re-open the argument.</p>
<p>Which you shouldn't do--even though I am sure your feelings were hurt. Still, there is nothing to be gained by re-opening that argument. You will not 'win' the debate because you are 17. There will be even less sympathy in a new thread. It will end up making you feel worse. Let it go. Youshould not have been quoted, but you were and now you can respond by letting it go.</p>
<p>What you might not know is that a number of threads have been deleted from the parent's forum. Recently. That's what this thread is about. It is not about you. Honest.</p>
<p>Lindsey if you want to discuss this then, as you know, you can post a new thread. And you can lay out the parameters of the discussion, and make your case maturely and without flaming, and then if someone else flames it's their fault but at least you will have had a forum - hmm I guess that's not even a pun - to voice your response. Which you should if you have strong feelings.</p>
<p>Everyone thinks we should just let it 'ride' and no one thinks we should just let it 'ride'.
Everyone likes to stir things up every so often, and no one likes to stir things up every so often.</p>
<p>And, me thinks a young man in southern california who shall be nameless knew exactly what he was doing when he shared that information!!</p>
<p>OMG. Was it another kid? The CC cafe is coming to us! Horrors!</p>
<p>Let's hide! Not more teenagers! I have two at home! I would put the eeek smiley here but I forget how!</p>
<p>Survey on Binge Arguing: Have you engaged in a pigheaded argument more than four times in the past two weeks? </p>
<p>Pigheaded is defined by me as when you know you'll never convince the other guy but that's certainly no reason not to keep batting away until you both pass out from sheer frustration and fatigue. </p>
<p>Quantitative measure is BAC, Boorish Acrimony Concentration. Symptoms include inability to reason in a staight line as well as nausea induced by the introduction of dissenting views.</p>
<p>Good one, momrath. You could undoubtedly publish a best-seller if you flesh it out.</p>
<p>Momrath,
When the Everyone and No One approach fails to secure the intended result, clearly the BAC assessment should be applied.</p>
<p>Now I have to figure out how to fit a pool table into my new living room (I know when to quit).</p>
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<p>I think the mods are the reason this board is not acrimonious. </p>
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<p>I agree 100%. Frankly, working with applicants for years, I've almost never seen problems between kids...but problems between parents? All the time.</p>
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<p>You've obviously never been down to the CC cafe. I'd go with you...but I'm chicken.</p>
<p>Loved it momrath. LOL. Pigheaded. Could be the definition of talk radio? I loathe talk radio. Rush Limbaugh poisoned my dad.</p>
<p>"I've almost never seen problems between kids"</p>
<p>That's becasue they're usually too nasty to be allowed to stay on the board and are immediately deleted. What you see from the parents is mild enough to be left up for you to read. </p>
<p>LOL at Lindsey questioning the maturity of the parents....especially those of us who are "younger" and tend to use less mature responses, but have to modify them to keep the decorum going. I think my response was much more mature than simply typing..."gag me with a spoon!" or whatever my initial response was.</p>
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<p>Everyone and no one simply MUST get into their Dream School.</p>
<p>I will barf if I hear the word Dream School one more time. Only because I think an awfully lot of kids talk themselves into a Dream School, causing themselves untold misery as a consequence.</p>
<p>Ban the Dream School!</p>
<p>Jmmom, I just noticed that you are now a senior member! I can't believe that I did not notice it earlier!
CONGRATULATONS, JMMOM!!!!!!!!!!! </p>
<p>Moderator note: Please try to avoid using excessively large type. Thank you. Moderator Skyhawk</p>
<p>Hey, I tend to "fall" into arguments here as easily as the next person. What I find missing in the most recent spate of arguments, however, is a willingness to say "I'm sorry I upset you" or "I respect your point of view." Talking LOUDER seldom convinces anyone of anything. There has definitely been something in the water here in parents-land of late. ;)</p>