[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
trishs
slosser at metrocast.net
Sat Nov 1 17:09:42 UTC 2008
I suppose that "respect" isn't quite universal. I feel that
others should study our culture as aposed to your suggestion,
this Is America!
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tammy, Paul and Colyn" <tcl189 at rogers.com
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:05:00 -0400
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
>Hi,
>Well you know what I think of when I hear the word assume? You
may want to
>study the cultures in question before you make such assumptions,
because
>manners vary greatly from culture to culture. Some languages
don't even
>have a wordl for please or thank you. It doesn't mean they're
being rude,
>it's just not a word they need.
>Tammy
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "trishs" <slosser at metrocast.net
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:28 PM
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
>> Violent scenarios aside, manners are manners. I assume we all
know what
>> to teach, and regardless of personality, affluence, culture,
traumatic
>> experiences, we need to be tought, and we need to learn how to
teach them
>> to our future leaders. It's our responsibility as parents to do
so, or
>> others will.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Tammy, Paul and Colyn" <tcl189 at rogers.com
>>>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>Date sent: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:34:56 -0400
>>>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
>>>Hi,
>>>That's all well and good but what's right to one parent may not
>> be right to
>>>another, and what gives us the right to judge either parent?
>>>tammy
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com
>>>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:07 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
>>>> Okay, I'd like to sit those parents in a time-out until they can
>> make
>>>> right choices about raising polite children.
>>>> Barbara
>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M." <Rebecca.Pickrell at ngc.com
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:30 AM
>>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
>>>>> I still say the use of violent metaphors is a problem given the
>> subject
>>>>> matter.
>>>>> We want to teach respect, but we use words that imply that it is
>> okay to
>>>>> hurt another human being.
>>>>> Any wonder why kids aren't "getting it?"
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>>>> On Behalf Of Dena Wainwright
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:05 PM
>>>>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
>>>>> I have to agree. I see parents in public all the time that I
>> just want
>>>>> to smack, but unless their child is doing something that impacts
>> me, my
>>>>> baby, or my dog, I just bite my tongue. I will say something in
>> the
>>>>> above instances, though. Like when kids are barking at my dog,
>> chasing
>>>>> my dog, trying to hit my dog with toys, etc. I'll do the same
>> if
>>>>> anyone's kid is bugging Elise in similar ways.
>>>>> Dena
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Amber Boggs" <amberboggs at socal.rr.com
>>>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:07 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
>>>>>>I agree with you on one point. If a child is being disruptive at
>> an
>>>>> event
>>>>>>the parents should try and keep them quiet. On the other points
>> I
>>>>> totally
>>>>>>have to disagree with you on. If a parent allows there children
>> to run
>>>>>>threw a store witch by the way is a huge peeve of mine, then that
>> is
>>>>> there
>>>>>>rite and who is it for us to tell them to control there children.
>> We
>>>>> gripe
>>>>>>as blind parents because people are always trying to tell us how
>> do do
>>>>>>things, thinking we cant parent, and so on, but then we will turn
>>>>> around
>>>>>>and boss parents around thus doing the same thing that we look
>> down on
>>>>> when
>>>>>>it is done to us. How would you feel if you had your child on a
>> leash
>>>>> in
>>>>>>order to give him freedom but also keeping him safe as a blind
>> parent
>>>>> and
>>>>>>someone came up to you telling you to get your child off a leash
>> that
>>>>> he
>>>>>>was not a dog? I realize that the situations are not exactly
>> alike,
>>>>> but in
>>>>>>principle one parent telling another how to raise there kids is
>> exactly
>>>>>>alike. I personally can not stand parents allowing kids to run
>> in
>>>>> stores,
>>>>>>scream out of control in restaurants, but It is not my place to
>> tell
>>>>> them
>>>>>>how to raise there kids. And besides do we think that by us
>> telling
>>>>> them to
>>>>>>make there kids stop running around that from now on they will be
>> good
>>>>>>parents and follow our lead? I think not.
>>>>>> JOB Sorry if this sounds harsh, its not meant to be so, but its
>> a
>>>>> peeve of
>>>>>> mine to have people tell me what to do. LOL
>>>>>> Amber
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: trishs
>>>>>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>>>>>> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 2:11 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
>>>>>> Last year at my girl's Christmas concert I sat across the table
>>>>>> from a young woman and man with a little boy two-years-old.
>>>>>> Micro man wasn't willing to sit quietly, super-parents weren't
>>>>>> willing to take him to the provided quiet room, and Trish
>> almost
>>>>>> got herself beat up because I couldn't keep my mouth shut. I
>>>>>> complained to them about their noise and I was told "maybe you
>>>>>> should mind your own business, this is a family concert." I
>> said
>>>>>> I was aware of that, but I couldn't hear my family. "Your
>> little
>>>>>> man may be the center of your universe, but he is not the
>> center
>>>>>> of mine, and he's disruptive, and you're inconsiderate." They
>>>>>> went into the office and complained about me. Nothing
>> happened,
>>>>>> but my mom couldn't get me out of there fast enough.
>>>>>> Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, but, if you're in
>>>>>> public, the grocery store, restaurant, school event, every
>> thing
>>>>>> you do there is public. If I find your children running around
>>>>>> in the store I'm going to say something to you.
>>>>>> It's not as though I'm barging into your living room telling
>> you
>>>>>> how to raise your family.
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