[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[trishs]

That's a social problem!
I don't feel there's any thing wrong with saying to someone I 
don't even know, "Do you know that, if you break that, your 
parents will have to pay for it?"
If you're teaching the right things no one like me will ever have 
to speak to you.
Kidnapping is everyone's problem, I couldn't sleep thinking I 
might be responsible.
You could be telling a parent something they don't know, and they 
could be thankful.  Like the neighbor who held back, for fear of 
getting involved, that my daughter was swearing at her house.  I 
thanked her for letting me know, and I'd do the same for her.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Allie" <alliemartins at gmail.com
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:24:45 -0700
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

>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

>A smile costs nothing but gives much.  It enriches those who 
receive without making poorer those who
>give.  It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes 
lasts forever.  None is so rich or
>mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor 
that he cannot be made rich by it.
>Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it 
is something that is of no value
>to anyone until it is given away.  Some people are too tired to 
give you a smile.  Give them one of
>yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to 
give.
>-- Author Unknown
>----- 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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