[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[Barbara Hammel]

Okay, I'd like to sit those parents in a time-out until they can make right 
choices about raising polite children.
Barbara


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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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