September 26, 2008 at 11:55 pm ·
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What do you do if you find out that one or more of your posts have been stolen and copied to someone else’s website? I found a recent post I wrote up – What Influence Do YOU have On Your Children? has been copied word for word by www.parentingtipstoday.com. The post can be viewed HERE. I left them a comment requesting that it be removed, but I don’t really know what good that’s going to do. It seems every single one of their posts are plagiarized. I don’t think the owner of this blog has written a single one of these articles. This disturbs me on several levels. I am not claiming to be an awesome writer or the best blogger, but I do write my own posts and I really don’t appreciate someone coming along and stealing my work for their own benefit. I also don’t get the point of even having any type of blog site if you are going to just steal other people’s blog posts. I also realize that the website in question seems to only have one purpose and that is to generate revenue with ads. Whatever. I am adding the copyscape banner here, even though I doubt it will do any good at this point.
They say imitation is the best form of flattery, but I am not freaking flattered. I wonder who I can contact to get my post and/or that person’s website taken down. Hmph!
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September 26, 2008 at 12:02 am ·
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Since reading and blogging about the child who was suspended from school because of his anti-Obama t-shirt, I’ve been thinking about about what we as parents are teaching our children, and what they are actually picking up from us that we may not even realize we are teaching them. As parents, it is our responsibility to teach our kids the various basics of life, and also to be moral, responsible, upstanding citizens. But we are only human, we make mistakes, we sometimes thrust our opinions and judgments onto our children unconsciously. Some people may purposefully try to raise little clones of themselves, who knows. The bottom line is, that we should be more careful. Our babies learn by example more than anything. What we say shouldn’t vary from what we do, because it’s what we do that is guiding our young people’s minds. I, myself am guilty of sometimes not leading my child in the right direction by example. I’m sure he sometimes gets confused. I tell him not to do something, that it is wrong, and then I turn around and do or say the very thing that I told him not to do. What am I teaching him? That my word is meaningless? I want my child to trust my word, and believe in me as a person and as a parent. Don’t you?
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