Looks great to me!

Randy
Cincinnati, OH
SAHD to Ryder (23 months)

A post for expertise help. I know we have web geeks and carpenters and plumbers and some self proclaimed professionals in all sorts of other trades, before we were AHD's. Lets pick their brains in a forum just for Ask the pro.....
Kevin

http://web.mac.com/ciaalum92/SAHD_Man/Welcome.html

Please refrain for calling me "Mr. Mom" I now Prefer-- Domestic Overlord

I would separate the DIY category and move it down to join Professional and Trade questions, e.g., "DIY, Professional and Trade Questions"

I think this sounds good. I hope in the reorganizing we don't lose the anonymous ability for those that need to ask something but are too embarrassed to just ask it.

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I know we discussed this before. But we now have everybody undivided attention...

Kevin

http://web.mac.com/ciaalum92/SAHD_Man/Welcome.html

Please refrain for calling me "Mr. Mom" I now Prefer-- Domestic Overlord

Who has time for healthy living? :-) I thought everyone gave up their former running careers and just drank beer and whiskey now...

I like the idea to move the DIY. (By the way, it's only becomes dirty if it's a subcategory of "relationships")

The crafts, etc can go in parenting or one of the general discussion categories. If there's a lot of this we can always make a separate place for it, but there's been very little thus far. I don't want to have a category with no posts.

Not much change, but here:

New members welcome and introduction
General Discussion and Socializing
-Culture and Entertainment
-Sports
-Hobbies
-Humor
-Everything else
Ask a dad
-Parenting
-Relationships
-Professional, trade, and DIY questions
-Other questions
Website Discussion and Suggestions
Convention

MileHi,

I either have:

a. A thyroid problem.
b. Big bones.
c. Dunlap's disease.

(besides, when SOME cougars are on the prowl, they're not that picky... LOL)

I used LOL and I feel somehow less sarcastic; oh well, following the new forum guidelines like a good boy.

Aye, there's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased scotsman...

I'm all for the live chat or Private Messenger. What a great way to talk more directly to each other.

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I have a thought.
NO POLOTICS!
I come here, or came here, to this site to talk to other Dads about parenting and the unusual position we are in in society. A lot of noise has been made about "we are all adults" and this being and "Oasis," she here is my noise. We are all adults so I'm sure we can suspend discussion of our politics no matter how much it pains us. This is an oasis? Hardly. I don't feel that I can let my guard down anymore or be myself. I used to feel very comfortable with everyone on this board but now I feel constantly on guard. I know I can leave and I may very well do that.

I'm sniped at enough in my life and it makes me furious to be sniped at here when I thought we were all in the same boat and were visiting this site for mutual support and understanding. A deviation from time to time is fun but look at the side bar, how many topics are there about being an AHD?

We all don’t have to like each other per se but ya know what “we are all adults,” and I’m sure we can keep things civilized. I say this because this site is becoming the locker room I have been leaving my whole life and I am feeling I need to leave again. I don’t want to because this site used to make me feel a little more confident that my problems weren’t uniqe and better men than I had been down the same road and came out smiling. Now I feel like a duck at a carnival shooting gallery waiting for a pellet to knock me down, or for someone to start pulling down towels and demanding, no matter his size, that his cock is the biggest, loudest or more obnoxious than mine.

I am now whole heartedly for a moderator and a few, but strictly enforced, guidelines.

And yes I am sensitive, but “we are all adults,” so if some of you are cavalier and happy go lucky, or just plain loud, you should understand that I am not.

Be Seeing You.

Don't turn this into another situation where you are making yourself the victim. These are just discussions. There have been very few curse words and no personal insults. People will debate issues. It's not about you, nobody here knows you, and everyone has been respectful toward you.

We are all at-home Dads. We live it every day. We don't need to talk about Dad issues all the time. People should be free to discuss whatever subject they wish to discuss in a respectful way.

Hey guy, I hear what you are saying. In case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm not your typical guy when it comes to what I like and I have been fighting against what other guys think of me (or a lack of acceptance from other guys) for years. Yes, sometimes I feel it here too, but when that happens I just have to remember that we all need our outlets. I would agree that some of the ways some of the guys vent in here can seem mean to me, but it's just their way. I don't want them to judge me for how I am so I have to set the example and not judge them for their style/way of venting. I know it's hard to do that sometimes but that's what I have to do. If that won't work for you, that's fine, I'm just saying what I do. What ever you decide to do, I hope you do stick around because it's good for all of us in here to see other views and opinions on different things. I stuck with it in here and I have a couple of dads that I have become good friends with; we actually talk almost everyday and enjoy the time we have those conversations. I really hope you do stick with it in here, it can be a great place to just get help for things, see other views on things, and even make some friends you would never have made before.

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New #2,

Those types of concerns are exactly why there SHOULD be a forum just for politics.

If you never want to open that folder, you never have to see it. People who enjoy debating candidates or policies or whatever can cut loose in that forum.

Politics will show up eventually, especially in an election year, and IME, there are few things that SAHDs disagree about more than politics, since we are such a diverse group. It might as well have it's own place instead of creeping into other threads.

Stick around through the growing pains.

JPhillip and alenaspoppa, don't sweat it. I'm so over it (and knew you guys were just giving me a hard time). I enjoy talking with you guys too much to hold a grudge. Besides, I'd hate to be nasty about it and appear as a character in Eric's next book...lmao! I can see it now...Alena and the Nasty Grudge Holding SAHD. Ummmmm....I think not. LOL! And JPillip how we going to have a wine cooler at the next convention if I hold it against you? That wouldn't be much fun! Oh...and I like the fuzzy navel ones. Good stuff, Maynard!

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Not trying to get off topic, but I think this may be a little relevant- I just looked over at the "Who's Online" status box and it's currently listing 6 users and 221 guests. Could that be accurate? Good lord that's a lot of hits.

"Now I feel like a duck at a carnival shooting gallery waiting for a pellet to knock me down, or for someone to start pulling down towels and demanding, no matter his size, that his cock is the biggest, loudest or more obnoxious than mine."

I misinterpreted your above comments as an over-reaction and victimization. I'm sorry if I got that wrong. For real.

Could you clarify when you felt like a discussion involved sniping directed at you? I'm actually confused about that accusation. I don't remember many threads at all with anyone being sniped at, aside from the music thread which didn't involve you.

I seriously want to know where this momentum against the content of the discussion has come from. It isn't how I see the forum at all lately.

One expects banter and sniping on discussion boards, and these boards are relatively tame compared to other places. It really blows my mind that the conversations here are even considered to be harsh and uninviting.