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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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08-04-2006, 09:47 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Child rearing
For those of you with siblings, do you think you were raised the same as your brothers/sisters?
My only sister is 6 years older than me and while she was up here last time she was talking about how strict mom and dad were and I was [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] The very last word I would EVER use to describe my parents would have been "strict" I totally got away with everything with them (PS - my mom said maybe that's where they went wrong! LOL)
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08-04-2006, 09:49 PM
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But why is the rum gone?
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Needville, Texas
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 12,286
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Re: Child rearing
My sister is 4 years younger then me and no we weren't raised the same.
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08-04-2006, 10:30 PM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Guilford, CT
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 6,938
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Re: Child rearing
My brother is 2 years younger than me and I am sure we were not even raised on the same planet.
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08-05-2006, 08:56 AM
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 31,940
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Re: Child rearing
Tina - I am the opposite of you. I am almost 6 years older than my Sister -- and the rules for me were (still) are much stricter (a higher standard I guess) than they were for my sister. Drove (still does) me NUTS!!! DSis got away with things that I would have NEVER, I repeat NEVER been allowed to do!
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08-04-2006, 11:05 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Child rearing
We weren't. My brother is 9 years older and my sister is 4 years younger. I was the one who always got in trouble with my sister cause my mother would always say "You're older and should know better", even though she was an absolute BRAT and still is at almost 40 years of age. I wasn't even able to go play at the neighbor's house unless she was invited too. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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08-04-2006, 11:30 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: Child rearing
I don't think that ANY two children are raised the same - because no two children are the same!
I was the oldest of 4, and we are only 4 years apart total! Even with that - we all were raised a bit differently!
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08-04-2006, 11:59 PM
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Tinkerbell's Aunt
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: McHenry IL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,254
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Re: Child rearing
I was the oldest and so the rules were stricter for me. I paved the was for my younger sister and brother.
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08-05-2006, 12:14 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 821
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Re: Child rearing
My mom has a saying that no child is ever born to the same family as his/her siblings. That makes a lot of sense since the addition of each child changes the family dynamic so much!
I am the youngest of three and I know my brothers would say that I had it much easier than they did.
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08-05-2006, 02:12 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
Posts: 13,884
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Re: Child rearing
I have 2 older brothers and was initially not wanted by my mother (she didn't want a 3rd child, much less a girl). I was also brought up in a military home, so the boys automatically were trained in "boy" stuff and I was trained in "girl" stuff. I remember getting in HUGE trouble for playing w/ my DBs' tinker toys and erector sets. Big no-no for a girl to play with those. My brothers I'm sure would say I was spoiled. We had a 4 bedroom apartment and they had to share (b/c my mom insisted on having a "music room" rather than letting them each have their own, which WAS the point of the 4th bedroom, after all [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]) I was also very sick as a child and got a lot of attention b/c of all the doctor's visits, time out of school, and occasional quarantines. My oldest DB and I have always had a rocky relationship b/c of the way we were raised. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
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08-05-2006, 04:52 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Posts: 2,858
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Re: Child rearing
I'm the oldest with 3 younger brothers AND I'm the only adopted child, so I have to say it was kinda different, but also very much the same! (weird, I know!) I never felt different because I was adopted, but some of the rules were different because I was the oldest and the only girl! My youngest brother got away with more because my folks had kinda let down there guard by then.
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08-05-2006, 07:12 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 16,825
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Re: Child rearing
LEt's just say that Ryan is (and will be) an only child for a reason. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img] I am the oldest so my parents learned on me.
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08-05-2006, 01:26 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: Child rearing
Well, that depends.
I have 1 biological full sister. She's only 17 months older than me, so we were raised very similarly.
BUT - I have 3 step-brothers (Dad and step-mom have been married most of my life) and they were raised differently. The older 2 were raised by THEIR father and step-mom and the youngest by MY dad and HIS mom. WE all agree, the youngest had it best!
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08-05-2006, 10:10 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NE Ohio
Concierge Level: 8
Posts: 11,856
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Re: Child rearing
My parents tried to treat us the same way but their are 4 of us. I'm the oldest. My one brother that's 2 yeas younger than us became my Dad's favorite later in life and my sister is the youngest and is still our mom's baby. My other bother insists that' he's the typical middle child. We all get along together. In fact, I saw all three of them today at diffeent times.
Liz
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