Kill your respondents with kindness

And respond to other people’s posts as you want to be treated

I wrote on post on Medium a while back that has had more of a response than any other I’ve written.

When I talk about response, I’m not talking page views or claps, I’m talking about people adding response comments to the post.

Why I Put My Own Child into Foster care

Many of the responses are positive, acknowledging my post and what I hoped to achieve with it.

There are comments appreciating my bravery in telling my story, or identifying the challenges I must have faced.

However, many of the responses are awful, judgemental, personal attacks, from people who ‘know best’.

It’s impossible to get the full picture from a short post here on a blog. Especially when it comes to highly complex, relationship issues, as my post covered.

Personally, I wouldn’t assume that after reading 800 words about someone’s life, that I knew enough to dissect it enough to rip into a person about their choices and why they were the cause of all life’s ills.

But that’s what happens these days.