[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[Allie]

Yup. I don't care what anyone else is doing as long as it doesn't affect me or my child. My child is 
my only responsibility; no one else's.
Now, on the other hand, I might think, "Oh boy. Where are those kids parents?" when they start 
running around the store and screaming like banshees, and might be a little annoyed if they keep 
running past my dog, but ... if they get kidnapped, that's their parents' problem.

-- Allie

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mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. 
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to anyone until it is given away.  Some people are too tired to give you a smile.  Give them one of 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M." <Rebecca.Pickrell at ngc.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:37 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!


Exactly.
It's not my job to tell other parents how to do something with regard to
their children, so while I personally may not like the way a child is
behaving, it just isn't my problem unless that child is doing something
that affects his or her own safety, or mine or that of my child.

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Amber Boggs
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:07 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
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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