[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

Wed Oct 29 04:19:45 UTC 2008

I try not to tell other parents how to raise their children. Unless they ask 
me.  Otherwise, I just grin and bare it.  Of course, if the child is going 
to get hurt, then i jump right in. V
----- 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 5:37 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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