Comments on: Pruning the Grapevine: Good vs Bad Gossip http://www.joyfuldays.com/pruning-the-grapevine/ How to find happiness and abundance through personal development. Create a life you love and live on your own terms. Start today to become a better, happier, richer person a week from now. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:06:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Daphne http://www.joyfuldays.com/pruning-the-grapevine/#comment-24532 Daphne Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:18:28 +0000 http://www.joyfuldays.com/?p=2186#comment-24532 Hi Rod, You make a good point about choosing to spread the 'good gossip'. I'll remember that! Thanks for dropping by to comment. Hi Rod,

You make a good point about choosing to spread the ‘good gossip’. I’ll remember that! Thanks for dropping by to comment.

]]> By: rod http://www.joyfuldays.com/pruning-the-grapevine/#comment-24292 rod Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:02:16 +0000 http://www.joyfuldays.com/?p=2186#comment-24292 We can do selective gossiping.. Spread what good or wholesome deeds so and so has done. Spread the good , discard the bad.. as some wise man has said "Nothing good to say don't say." We can do selective gossiping.. Spread what good or wholesome deeds so and so has done. Spread the good , discard the bad.. as some wise man has said “Nothing good to say don’t say.”

]]> By: Beaulotus http://www.joyfuldays.com/pruning-the-grapevine/#comment-20784 Beaulotus Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:29:08 +0000 http://www.joyfuldays.com/?p=2186#comment-20784 Hi Daphne, it's precisely that - that they didn't have anything better to do with their time and lives. Those few mums are really unhappy here unfortunately (have heard it from them a few times myself) and they have been channelling their negative vibes into bad gossip to try to make themselves feel better. I would have confronted them if I hadn't promised my source (who's part of the English coffee crowd) not to get her into trouble with her peers. She wanted to warn me in case it really got out of hand. So I just took the opportunity to warn my son to be careful what he tells his friends - that while I know he loves to impress them with my canes, it may get us into trouble as a family. And also how information when passed on in a chain could get so totally out of hand, exaggerated and untrue. Otherwise I do not have a problem with this nonsense, I do not abuse my children and anybody can see that. My cane is like a ruler, wooden spoon or the naked hand that some other mothers use - in fact I think it scares quite well so one almost never has to use it. Actually, my kids use them for art and craft sometimes. I do and try to use my time with other families constructively, so in any case I have a busy and fulfilling social life. In fact, that could be one reason why they dislike me :-) Hi Daphne, it’s precisely that – that they didn’t have anything better to do with their time and lives. Those few mums are really unhappy here unfortunately (have heard it from them a few times myself) and they have been channelling their negative vibes into bad gossip to try to make themselves feel better.

I would have confronted them if I hadn’t promised my source (who’s part of the English coffee crowd) not to get her into trouble with her peers. She wanted to warn me in case it really got out of hand.

So I just took the opportunity to warn my son to be careful what he tells his friends – that while I know he loves to impress them with my canes, it may get us into trouble as a family. And also how information when passed on in a chain could get so totally out of hand, exaggerated and untrue.

Otherwise I do not have a problem with this nonsense, I do not abuse my children and anybody can see that. My cane is like a ruler, wooden spoon or the naked hand that some other mothers use – in fact I think it scares quite well so one almost never has to use it. Actually, my kids use them for art and craft sometimes.

I do and try to use my time with other families constructively, so in any case I have a busy and fulfilling social life. In fact, that could be one reason why they dislike me :-)

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