So recently I've been wondering about what is the appropriate response when someone criticizes your parenting. Of course, there's the criticism from moms and mother in law...which is just a given and easily goes in one ear an dout the other cuz you've practiced that skill all your life. But when someone outside of your immediate family or circle of close friends makes a biting comment about your parenting, what do you respond with?

If you're Dave, you respond with ignoring the comment and not even letting it bother you.

If you're me...you think up all the kinds of smart-butt comments and snide remarks that you could have made if it were said to your face.

Then...I think of what the appropriate response is and how to handle the anger that boils inside whenever I think of what the person said. So, because I'm striving and growing to be a better Christian woman, I know that retaliation and anger is not the answer...and that I just have to forgive and forget...ha. And you know that in my struggle to grow, my thought is, yea, I gotta forgive people for being IDIOTS and forget that they're DUMB. Lol.