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There was an old lady who lived in a shoe…

She had so many emails she didn’t know what to do…

As the RaisingSmallSouls family grows, my inbox is growing.

And growing. And GROWING. AND GWOWING SOME MORE!

I don’t want to ignore anyone. I wish I could give advice and support to every individual, as each person certainly deserves.

However, 300 parenting questions plus 200 site navigation questions plus another 100 miscellaneous RaisingSmallSouls questions do not make for lots of quality time with my children!

For the past week I have not been responding to emails; although I think it’s really rude behaviour.

I formulated a “canned” email that directs people to my parenting forum. However, copying and pasting that email and hitting ‘reply’ 500 times takes an hour or two of my day!

What should I do?

Be grateful I don’t live in a shoe!

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17 Responses to “Too Many Emails!”

Teresa Bingham says:

Please help. My 13 year old daughter hates her dad. Her dad dislikes her almost as much. I’m stuck in the middle. She’s disrespectful and self-absored. He can be cruel and downright mean to her and even verbally abusive. I’ve tried talking to both of them and nothing is working.
What should I do? (He won’t agree to counseling)

Teresa

September 20th, 2006 at 2:28 pm

Andrea Goodsaid says:

Hi Ellen -

Ahh … success brings so many balancing issues to light, eh?

Set yourself up an autoresponder for the email that’s receiving the mail (get yourself a new personal email addy) that explains just what’s going on.

Include that you’re taking yet another week off to regroup .

Then get busy in that forum (and or this blog, encouraging comments) so that you can leverage your time better and benefit more people. Your family included.

That’ll be a good start anyway

This may well be your tipping point girl! How cool is that ??

Excited for ‘ya,
Andrea

September 23rd, 2006 at 8:04 am

Ellen C. Braun says:

Hi Teresa,

Even if HE won’t go to counseling- YOU should go, to learn to deal with this difficult situation as best as possible.

Perhaps he will agree to go to counseling in the future.

From what you are writing- may I ask if you have any plans to leave him??

Good luck!

Andrea- You have just been hired as my secretary, LOL!

Great idea, I do need to figure out how to set up an autoresponder and new email address.

I’ve been away for the weekend, WOW, loads of comments and forum posts calling!!

PS Are you on the forum? What’s your username?

September 25th, 2006 at 4:24 pm

Donna Kimick says:

Just a quick question - found your website through that wonderful “animal school” slide show (don’t know what else to call it) I watched it twice and even sent it to our school principal - my questions is ” where is the kangaroo in the beginning? Did I miss it twice? or did something happen in the transfer?
thanks -just wondering if I am losing it

Donna

September 25th, 2006 at 11:01 pm

Donna Kimick says:

Ok forget it I looked again for the third time and saw the kangaroo sorry

September 26th, 2006 at 10:01 am

Andrea Goodsaid says:

Ellen -

Lol… I’ve NEVER been considered for a secretarial job … highly doubt I’m organized enough (though maybe I could be better at keepig track for others ). Actually could use the work right now.

I AM however more than capable at helping you figure out how you want your email to function and getting it put in place.

Email me directly if you want a hand with it Maybe we can plow through it on the phone?

Haven’t gotten busy on the forum just yet, but my user name is agoodsaid

Make it a great day!
Andrea

September 26th, 2006 at 10:37 am

Andrea Goodsaid says:

Theresa -

Taking care of you first (ie. getting someone professional to alk to and bounce ideas off of) will be a huge part of the puzzle for you … all of you.

It’s a tough age and some Dad’s have an extra hard time knowing how to ‘be’ best with all those hormones a-raging, ‘ya know?

Take care of you so you can take care of them

hth,
Andrea

September 26th, 2006 at 10:41 am

Fay Latture says:

Is it ok to use your column in our newsletters?

September 29th, 2006 at 11:39 am

Nadine says:

Please help, my son is 12 and is being very rude and bad tempered. I do not know what to do any more. I take things and events away from him but he still continues and blames me for it. He treats his brother and sister with no respect. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

October 27th, 2006 at 7:36 am

ken says:

Ellen…hello and first of all, “Thank you so much for your wisdom and sharing”. My son of 7 yrs. lives in another state and I see him once or twice a year, for a week at a time. In the mean time I write and support him through the snail mail and web cam e-mail also. We see each other once a month online and speak, only it’s always monitored by his step father who’s always in the background. Your articles I have found to be very helpful in validating a lot of my own thoughts. Please keep up all your divine work. Sincerely kenianjake@aol.com

October 31st, 2006 at 11:29 am

Jason says:

Ellen,

You have a great site! and I would love to add raising small souls to www.adorablecuties.com

I hope my readers love it as much as I do.

Take care, God bless.

-Jason.

March 17th, 2007 at 9:52 am

Heather says:

If you’re looking to get a new email address, you should go with Gmail… it’s absolutely phenomenal, more organized than you could imagine, room for every single email you’ll ever receive for the rest of your life and thensome (not an overexaggeration at all, I’m serious), they have a great autoresponder feature, an amazing spam filter, as well as a super filtering system that can allow you more organization than ever before. I don’t have a username on the site, but my email is thejuicer280 AT gmail DOT com and I would LOVE to get you set up with it if you would like!

Re: your site… I’m in university, studying psychology to be an elementary teacher (I’m in a concurrent program) and I watched Animal School as every other person who saw it, it was incredible and I was completely touched. A phenomenal teaching tool, I’ve saved the link (in my Gmail account! ) and I’m definitely going to look at it in a couple of years when I am a teacher!!

Have a great day! Take care,
Heather

April 7th, 2007 at 12:37 am

William Bills says:

Ellen,
First I would like to thank you for the creation of this wonderful website and newsletter. I have not used this type of forum before for advice, how ever, my wife and I are in desprite need of assistance. We have a wondeful three year old daughter. She is very easy going and happy most of the time. She makes us laugh everyday and we are very thankful to have her in our lives until nap time. She is enrolled in an all day per-school/daycare center. Each class has a nap time scheduled in ot their afternoon. At that time my daughter who has had a wonderful morning turns into a different child. She throws an absolute tirate. Yelling, screaming, hitting, kicking, throwing pillows, blankets, moving her cot around, etc. She goes nuts. This behavior occurs at some level nearly every day. The difficult part is she needs her nap. On days she does not fall asleep, she usually falls asleep on our drive home (5:00 ish) and will sleep until dinner. On weekends, she naps for us with very little or no fuss. We have tried seemingly everything to change this behavior without success. My wife works at the same child care center that she attends however is not her teacher/supervising adult. She behaved this way when in her regular classroom, as well as when she waqs moved for nap time to my wife’s classroom. Her behaviors have remained the same. This is a new problem within the last two months. At that time she had been advanced in groups due to age. So there was an environmental and personel change when she changed rooms. The unique thing is, her horrible behavior is on exhibited at and during the two hour rest/nap time.
Please offer us some help. We are completely baffled as to what to do. Thank you very much for any assistance you can provide.

Sincerely,

Bill

October 25th, 2007 at 12:57 pm

Andrea Goodsaid says:

Hi Bill -

Why not take her for a ride at nap time?

Seems the path of least resistance to me … she WILL change again (and again ).

Just my .02 of course

Best,
Andrea

October 25th, 2007 at 1:59 pm

Lynn says:

Hello

My neighbor told me about your animal video. After watching it I almost cried. I have a 16 year old daughter and she and her brother are my whole heart.

She was diagnosed with visual spatial learning, ADD and some social challenges. She is on an anti depressent and ADD medicine.

She does well on the medicine but, my problem is she doesn’t want to take it most of the time. She says she likes the feeling of being giggly and free. But she doesn’t get that without it she is loud and disruptive.

Anyones advise will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you, Lynn

March 13th, 2008 at 4:56 pm

Dee says:

Jason,
I just went to your recommended site www.adorablecuties.com and was shocked at the site!! Is this a joke or do you not know…first thing I saw was a naked woman and quickly x out. I just didn’t expect that being that this site is family friendly.

Dee

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