Every now and then we all experience special events that bring with them lasting memories; memories which will follow us the remainder of our lives. Though many of these memories are of a positive nature such as the birth of a child, marriage, buying your first car, etc., some can carry with them a heavy emotional burden such as the passing of a loved one. 

For this reason we've created a new News Section at Lifesupporters.com called "Member Stories". The purpose of Member Stories is to allow our members to share these important events in their lives in a manner that draws additional attention. Regardless of whether your celebrating a new engagement or want to pay tribute to someone who's recently passed on, Member Stories is your chance to share with the world. 

Please see our forums for details.

I'm pleased to announce that Lifesupporters Family Friendly Directory is now up, running and accepting links. If you own, operate or member at a Family Friendly Website, then you're just what we're looking for.

Basic inclusion in our Directory (one listing/site) is completely free however you must provide a reciprocal link to Lifesupporters.com in order for your directory listing to remain free.

Typically we like to be listed in a Main Category such as "Family" simply because of the wide array of social topics we cover in our News, Blog and Discussion Forums. 

To add our link to your page, simply copy/paste the following code to your sites designated reciprocal link page:

<a href="http://www.lifesupporters.com/" title="Lifesupporters.com" alt="Lifesupporters.com, Your Online Family Support Site and Discussion Forums"><b>Lifesupporters.com</b></a>, Your online family friendly social support site discussing social issues affecting child through adult.

Raising a child is the single-most important thing you will ever do with your life. Unlike your life leading up to becoming a parent, you are now personally responsible and accountable for another human beings development. The techniques you employ in parenting will not only shape the way your child develops but will likely influence the techniques your child uses in parenting their children. If you actually stop to consider the above, you may be directly responsible for parenting techniques employed by your descendants for generations to come.

This, above all, is reason enough for you to take your role as a parent seriously as you only get one chance at it.

These days, it seems as if there is an ever decreasing amount of time left for family and family friendly activities. There are many problems associated with not spending quality family time, many of which are either published on our news page or discussed in our forums within.

I know personally, one of the largest problems that affected me as a child was I felt there was nobody to discuss important and sensitive issues with. I know my mother did all she could to remain active in both my and my brothers lives but as a young boy, one really needs a father to discuss things with and my father was usually drunk.