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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
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Starbright, as a mother whose kids occasionally had a hard time separating I hope you have the patience to wait this out. She will get better. I would keep talking to her though. As an adult my DD has told me things about being left with her father that could have been addressed when they happened. My ex would go take a nap and leave her to fend for herself. She was two and both her brothers were in school. I also only worked part time so it was good she was only on her own for a few hours and was born mature and responsible, but it kills me now that she never told me. I guess she thought it was normal.
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I too think she is trying to manipulate you and make you feel guilty. Abby is in the process of doing that right now to me. She got upset at a game, I told her if she didn't knock it off, the computer would go off for the rest of the day and instead of giving me that chance, she shut it off herself, stomped upstairs, slammed the bathroom door then proceeded to stomp to her room and slam the door about 6 times. Meanwhile I stayed sitting here reading your post. The things kids do to get mom or dads attention. Abby didn't get my attention right now so she's probably upstairs sulking and in a little while, she'll come back and apologize for her behavior. I do think you have to stand firm in this. One thing I've done with Abby in the past (and it might work with your 8 YO) is to point out that her staying up and crying to is hurting nobody but herself. Let her stay up and cry, don't give her attention, and when she complains the next day about how tired she is, just point out you're not the one who kept her up, you're not the one who cried, she is and she did it all to herself.
Ok, so I may be the bad guy here, but I think this looks like a control issue with your kid. It's a behavior issue plain and simple. She's 8. She's not stupid. She just wants you to play by her rules. Life doesn't work like that and we all have to make adjustments. Good luck. But DON'T let her make you feel guilty. You're not doing it to hurt her, you're doing it for the family.
Exactly!!! I agree with you and with everyone else My daughter is HUGE into control. She even told me yesterday, that she wouldnn't quit crying til her brother got dressed (he was still in his pj's while doing his laundry)-really?! Yes, I stood my ground.
We are tough parents, and we stand up to her. But this guilt really really threw. I guess I hadn't worked in so long and I felt torn, and guilty without her throwing it at me too. I had given up my career for dh and our buisness, and to be a SAHM and help him out. Now, I am attempting to get back into the work force, and I have to work some hrs that i am away from the kids including the wkends. But even if I work the wkends, it is only for 6 hrs.
My job is pretty good, but I keep looking at it as a stepping stone. I don't know what I want to do yet, other than to have regular hrs. These on-call/call-out hrs are a pain since I never know when I am working or how many hrs i will get. So the job starts to control me and not the other way around, which is something I have to change.
Thanks everyone!!! It has been a yr of change and it is good but also tough.
Exactly!!! I agree with you and with everyone else My daughter is HUGE into control. She even told me yesterday, that she wouldnn't quit crying til her brother got dressed (he was still in his pj's while doing his laundry)-really?! Yes, I stood my ground.
This made me have to laugh. I was picturing the bad kid saying they were going to hold their breath until they got their way. You stand strong girl. This is going to be good for her and teach her some independence and that you don't always get life the way you want it.
It has been a yr of change and it is good but also tough.
Good to hear you stand your ground! So many parents don't. We are very firm with our children, but as they've gotten older, they've thanked us for it.
I think you and I must have entered the work force (again) at about the same time. I started working my first job in almost 23 years last June (1st real, honest to goodness, bring home a check, full time position). It's been hard at times - and my youngest is now 15! I work nights on a 2 wk. schedule: Mon, Fri, Sat, Tues, Wed, Fri... There have been times youngest has said she'd prefer I stay home and be at her beck and call like before, but she understands I NEED to work, not just for $$ but for ME.
DD does hers too. She wanted to learn, so I taught her. Better now than later. Like I said, when she is good, she is golden. Ds has done his own laundry at age 9. No running back to mom when he is out of the home because he wants me to do his laundry-no way
I think you and I must have entered the work force (again) at about the same time. I started working my first job in almost 23 years last June (1st real, honest to goodness, bring home a check, full time position). .
I am probably much older than you. I had my kids later, not by choice, but due to m/c and not being able to concieve right away. I had my dd 1.5 mths after I turned 41. She is very healthy as you can gather LOL.
But yes, much of this is for me, and I have my degree, I should try to use it.
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Ok, so I may be the bad guy here, but I think this looks like a control issue with your kid. It's a behavior issue plain and simple. No different that leaving a preschooler at school and having them throw a fit. Just my 2 cents, I think you should STOP trying to explain it to her and just ignore it (hard I know). I think I would tell her that all her crying tells you that she's too tired and that you've consulted "The Doctor" (fictitious of course) and he says that if she continues to keep crying like this then she will have to start going to bed even earlier to get her sleep so that she won't be so upset any more. You'll have to get your DH on board with this as he will have to administer the early bed time. But I'd bet that after some nights of having to get in bed early, she'll wise up and realize that you're doing this for your family. But you really need to stop feeding her drama by all the explanations. She's 8. She's not stupid. She just wants you to play by her rules. Life doesn't work like that and we all have to make adjustments. Good luck. But DON'T let her make you feel guilty. You're not doing it to hurt her, you're doing it for the family.
Now you're job you're going to have to handle on your own. But if you can get things to settle down for the summer at home, it will be one less thing.
I agree with you. It is time the 6yo learned life is not all about her. Sounds harsh but it is true. This is how it used to be a few generations ago until Mom's decided they need to feel "guilty" about doing the right thing. And everyone grew up just fine.
Now the crazy thing this wk, I am down to 5.5 hrs between two jobs because of yr end school stuff and I can't take on as many days. This was the wrong wkfor this to happen since it is now in dd favour. It is also scary that I might have to look at getting another job just to get my 20 hrs per wk in that I want. Unreal.
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Bless your heart honey. I bet those extra shifts kick in some time soon with folks wanting to take summer vacations and needing to find someone to cover.
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