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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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I work at my brother's dental office. We have a toy table set up with games, puzzles etc. We have a family in now with mom and a toddler waiting for her other children. I look in the waiting room and the toddler is happily munching on a string connected to one of the magna doodle pens. I go in "no, no honey that's bad, icky." trying to take the pen away. Toddler screams, I look at mom "he likes to put everything in his mouth," and child continues to munch away. That pen has be used by hundreds of children, been stepped on etc. I just sit here and shake my head-ewwww.
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EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. I never let my child play with the toys in the pediatrician's office because of all the sick kids that would touch them first. At least at the dentist every isn't sick but still EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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I know, I have a cousin who let her child play with phones, TV's, remote controls...whatever he wanted. Didn't care if they were on, had batteries in them. Whatever he wanted to do they just let him. I think they didn't want to fight with him to leave them alone so they just let him go.
People even used to let their children play in and around the automatic doors in the ER Waiting room when I worked at a hospital. Couldn't be bothered to keep them away. I just cringed everytime, waiting for that one time someone got a hand or body stuck in the doors. You just gotta wonder...
Yeah, people don't think. It's easier to let them do it than to tell them no and have to deal with it.
i.e.; We were coming home from WDW a few years ago, and Lauren wanted to get the luggage off the conveyor belt. I said "No, you might get your fingers caught in it". She was okay, but not happy. Another mother didn't tell her child no. He was about the same age as Lauren. He got his finger stuck in the conveyor belt, and it was a mess. His finger was intact, but quite bruised, cut, and bloodied. As they were leaving, the dad was yelling at the mom, asking why she didn't say no. Well, she didn't want to argue and she didn't want to make the 8 yr. old mad!!
I'd prefer my kids remain healthy and intact than they like me that exact moment.
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I'm not a parent but I've been certainly educated by my sisters One of my sisters is dead on strict about one set of things while the other is strict on another set of things. They both have a different set of things from each other that they are not strict about. None of that is life threatening stuff but I know they both can drive each other slightly bonkers about what the other is not strict on with their kids.
One time, I asked both sisters if it drove them crazy what the other doesn't do and they both told me that it is a matter of picking your battles. So maybe that mom has decided that chewing on pens in the dental office is a battle she is not gonna take up the gauntlet on but she might be strict on something else that you wouldn't dream of being strict about.
Granted, the pen thing is most definitely an ewwww but my sisters have taught me a certain perspective on that stuff. Everyone has a different definition of which battle is worth your limited mom energy to fight.
I agree with the sentiment that you have to pick your battles, especially being the mom of a speical needs kid, but sorry - chewing on something that was not in my house is definitely not something I would ever let her do. I can't stand it when Abby chews on the string of her hat but it's hers, only been on her head so that I'd let her get away with.
My mom used to refer to places like this as "corporate germ farms." (She was a biochemist and knew that the body would likely build up great immunities by this sort of access.) That said, she wouldn't let us do this more because it's just plain... well... sorta rude.
Eileen
We call every doctors office a "germ factory." My son gets allergy shots once a week and I swear, both my kids are more sick because we keep going to the doctors office!
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. I never let my child play with the toys in the pediatrician's office because of all the sick kids that would touch them first. At least at the dentist every isn't sick but still EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
My DD would LOVE to play with the toys in the pediatricians office but I bring
her own toys when we are there. This is the same office that had a case of
Swine Flu when it first came out.
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One of my sisters is dead on strict about one set of things while the other is strict on another set of things. They both have a different set of things from each other that they are not strict about. None of that is life threatening stuff but I know they both can drive each other slightly bonkers about what the other is not strict on with their kids.
Thats so gross. I hated putting them in grocery carts because I was afraid they would put their mouthes on them.
My mom used to refer to places like this as "corporate germ farms." (She was a biochemist and knew that the body would likely build up great immunities by this sort of access.) That said, she wouldn't let us do this more because it's just plain... well... sorta rude.
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