MOMYS

We here at MOMYS know that our site registration process is like no other. You're not sure if we're going to ask you for your mother's maiden name and your blood type. To give you a bit of insight, I'd like to point out what's been going on over at an excellent homeschool curriculum publisher.

Sonlight, which we've used with several children, has recently made their forums private and fee-based. If you buy their curriculum you can participate for no additional charge, if you just want to talk about the curriculum, you may pay a fee and still participate. In short, the spoilers who just want to cause trouble, but aren't actually buying the products are causing too much trouble, and have now been locked out.

They have, apparantly, also had problems with false identities, as a recent email announcing the "closing" of the boards states that they are using credit card validation to ensure the identity of forum members.

So, complete anonymity is not falling from webmaster favor just here at MOMYS. We all like things for free, and for things to be open for all to participate. However, the cost is very high. How many hours do you want to spend praying for and worrying about a mother whose child is dying of cancer only to find out that she is a college student with problems who has led a fake life for over a year at your expense (this happened to me and my wife, but not here at MOMYS). Now, that is someone who is just sick, however at the turn of the new year, I got to engage with a group of women who were attempting to infiltrate MOMYS.com with false emails and made up stories. We quietly turned off their accounts, and engaged with them to try to help them see who we were, as we felt Christ would have us do.

We hope they understand us better, but as you'll read below in the membership guidelines, MOMYS.com is not being provided for their purposes.

Please read through the membership and posting guidelines carefully. If you have a yahoo or hotmail account, it will look like your membership started to go through, and the system will even let you verify that email address, however, the staff will automatically delete these in the review process. A real human reads and approves you. Please also note that you must provide your first and last name in the info box. This is not part of your profile, but your registration attempt will be deleted if it's not in there.

If you are a mother of many young siblings, we hope you'll find MOMYS a special place as so many have already done.