[blparent] Screeching!

[Veronica Smith]

It's like whining, the less you pay attention to it, the sooner it goes 
away.  Well, if anything can push my buttons is whining and the more of it 
there is, the more angry I get.  I keep telling myself, just walk away, but 
instead i yell, Stop whining." V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Shelton" <rshelton1 at gmail.com>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Screeching!


> Twenty-odd years ago, I was standing in our kitchen, speaking with my soon
> to be foster son in law.  He was an engineering grad student at the place
> where I was teaching.  About that time, my fourth, Brian, two at the time,
> came tearing through at full volume.  He just hit that perfect 
> resonance --
> ear-splitting howl which echoed off the walls in a glorious fashion.  I
> remember pausing my conversation with Michael, and then picking right back
> up after my ears stopped ringing.  He looked at me for a few seconds and
> said "Those four boys left you with some serious nerve damage."  Well, I
> guess they did, but it was only a few years later that Michael had a 
> couple
> of his own -- and so it goes.
>
> Bottom line, it's more or less normal, and the less attention you pay, the
> better everybody sleeps.  My theory -- if it's not toxic, expensive, 
> sharp,
> or on fire,
> screw it, let things take care of themselves.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto [mailto:jopinto at pcdesk.net]
> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 2:01 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] Screeching!
>
> Sarah is going through a very vocal stage.  It really is amazing the
> ear-piercing screeches that can come out of such a little baby.  They're 
> not
> angry screeches, they're happy sounds, but my goodness!  I hope it's just 
> a
> phase she'll quickly grow out of.
>
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> It is easy--terribly easy--to shake a man's faith in himself. To take
> advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. Take care of 
> what
> you are doing. Take care.--George Bernard Shaw in "Candide"
>
>
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