[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[Elizabeth Cooks]

It certainly isn't the parents' right to allow their children to run around 
the store and be a nuisance to everyone, which is exactly what happensNot to 
mewntion the fact that the children could be snatched by a predator.  It is 
the child's right to be kept safe and to be disciplined.  If kidsw aren't 
kept in check, they will be disruptive lesewhere.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amber Boggs" <amberboggs at socal.rr.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 11:07 PM
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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