No Antonios, I am not cross with you. You make plenty of sense and yes if I want to complain in public I should be over at a family website doing it. Or better yet, as you suggest, stop being so public about it altogether. You are a good man/father.

I will try and stop and continue to focus on the little foster children that are at risk of harm in the other thread.

Did we decide about smacking in this thread?

I don’t find others smacking a big deal but it is not for me or the children in my care.

If the children could vote I think I would win a "no smacking' vote! But then I guess if kids could decide they would also vote in ice-cream for breakfast.

DO NOT DO AS I DO!
I use the words "CROSS FOR" or "This cross is mine" "give me the cross" as a personal sacrification, as a personal duty, as a personal fight to find a solusion to a problem, as a personal mission, I take the cross for others or from others, BUT I do not know the "CROSS WITH", if it exists and what it means.
When a person writes on a forum for a personal or family problem most posters try to stay far from it, I do always the opposite. I do not care for the rules, I do not try to seem polite, most times for me polite means hypocrite, BUT I TRY TO BE USEFULL ESPECIALY FOR CHILDREN OR YOUNG PEOPLE.
This strange behave some times create problems to me!
One time a man was bad to his gerlfriend and I decided to tell her to leave him because I thought that she will have problem with him
I was unlucky and I did not have the opportunity to speak to her , after I changed mind and I did not tell her anything.
They married , they have a child and always I fill bad when I think about it.
I TRY TO HELP OTHERS AND SOME TIMES I CREATE PROBLEMS, MAINLY TO MYSELF!
OF CAUSE MOST TIMES I AM USEFULL...
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

"I TRY TO HELP OTHERS AND SOME TIMES I CREATE PROBLEMS, MAINLY TO MYSELF! OF CAUSE MOST TIMES I AM USEFULL..."

You are a teasure Antonios. I say again, you are a good man. The fact you are not perfect is a comfort and in no way a dissapointment.

I will not take the cross, it is to heavy for me honey. This guilt you must let go now, the girl made her own choice and you told me to respect our young and the decisions they make.

That cross is hers now.