[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[Amber Boggs]

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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