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A New Parenting Space on Ricochet
A few years ago, I left almost every single parenting Facebook group. I couldn’t handle the crazy. If you want to lose faith in the future of humanity, go to a parenting board on BabyCenter or on Facebook. Between the parents trying to treat the measles with essential oils and the folks who can’t figure out why their 14-year old boy they never spend time with is such a troublemaker, it results in incredibly high levels of frustration.
As with many things, there’s something different about Ricochet and its members. Every time I write a post about parenting; asking a question or making an observation, I’m struck by the wisdom of those responding. A lot of that is due to the fact that much of our member base has already raised children, and many others in the thick of parenthood are intentional people by nature; it’s why they belong to a conversation site predicated on thoughtful and measured dialogue.
It got me thinking: why don’t we have a space here for parenting? Both for those like myself still in the trenches, and those who made it out on the other side? And so, I bring you a new group I’d like to have help growing:
If you’re a member, please join. If you’re not a member, well, rectify that mistake first, and then join the group. Hopefully, we can have the same kinds of engaging and thoughtful conversations we have on the rest of the site there as well.
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Hi, Bethany!
I’ve never been married. Consequently, I have no children (I know you don’t have to be married to have children; but, Crazy Me, I just thought it would be a good thing to do it that way). I just wanted to tell you what a good idea it is, and it is only right that you should be the one to start it.
Good Luck and God Bless! :-)
You might like my recent post which, although not overtly, has something to do with parenting. (Although, in my world, that’s not a participle. But I get what you mean.)
My second child is about to graduate from college this spring, both have remunerative degrees (Accounting & Engineering), one is debt free, the other owes me a few grand, which I might use as a further lesson in guiding principles. The eldest is engaged, and being a good boy before he gets married.
So did I win anything?
(Really just looking for Grandchildren at this point, they are the penultimate payoff in parenting.)
So they are. Which refers me back to my post again!
Great idea!
However, I can’t join. Not that it’s a bad idea, it’s just Ricochet has too many groups I could be a member of. I recently retired, and I have a lot of things I’m into now. If I joined every group I had an interest in (like I did when they were first formed), I’d never have the time to engage in other activities (hobbies, traveling, and writing/publishing novels).
Hey, anxiously looking forward to your first LadyBrains podcast about? The move . . .
I love this idea. Thanks for putting it together.
Are grandparents welcome?
As a parent of two grown kids and the grandparent of five and the spouse of their mother or grandmother for 49 years and a former pediatrician I have a lot of thoughts and opinions about parenting but I don’t know anything about groups on Ricochet. How do they work?