Well girls, I think we need to make a decision about it all. Obviously Kim is hurt and upset, some of us were surprised by her post, and some didn't ever read it. I wish we could put it behind us and move on. In every close friendship I have, we have fought, disagreed and overcome. You'd be surprised at my closest friends. I think only one is similar to me, the others are all different in many ways... yet we appreciate our differences.

In parenting decisions as well. As a gentle parenter, I find some decisions hard to agree with.... very very hard, but I try with everything within me to not judge. One of my best friends uses smacking, and recently we did have a big blow up regarding it IRL. It was hard because neither of us would change what we do. But wanted to persuade the other that our way worked. It was hard, it hurt.... and we had to agree in the end to support each other regardless. I felt so deflated afterwards. BUT our friendship has survived. We still love each other. Unfortunately it means I have had to decide when is enough for us. I she ever did it in front of me, I don't know if I could handle it.... I guess it depends on what it was for etc... the circumstances. Not that I haven't attempted smacking in the past.

Okay.... I encourage everyone to post what they feel and hopefully we can move on as a group.