title: Character Building with the Family Meeting Diary
author:  Jean Tracy 
description: Jean Tracy, MSS, helps parents and teachers raise awesome kids with solid characters. Jean knows something about the issues facing families. For years, she worked as a teacher, a probation officer, and then as counselor with parents and children as they struggled with their interwoven challenges. During her career, Jean developed concepts that continue to benefit parents and children through her line of parent/child discussion books and practical parenting tools. Jean's website, http://www.KidsDiscuss.com displays her books and details each parenting product.
zlib_text: Tracy in chains
  Claire Thompson
  
  Claire Thompson
   
  Tracy in chains
  
  "
  CHAPTER 1
  Tracy's Discovery
   
  I'll be your Master."
  The words made her gasp as she saw them scroll across the computer
  screen. Tracy looked around nervously to see if her husband had
  somehow materialized behind her, but no, he was still safely tucked away on
  his own chat site. Actually they were both on 'bulletin boards' – those
  expensive and lumbering precursors to today's chat rooms.
  The year was 1995 and Tracy had just turned twenty-eight. She sat typing
  away on a computer, while her husband typed away on his computer in the
  other room.
  Those words, 'whispering' to her, were the result of the profile Tracy had
  created for herself on the Palace bulletin board:
  Nickname: Beloved
  Desire: To find a 'Master' to teach me about submission and BDSM
  Experience: Novice, but eager to learn
  Availability: Email and online only
  Stats: Female, Age 28, curvy and voluptuous
  She felt silly selecting 'curvy and voluptuous' from the 