[blparent] coming to my defense

[Eva Adams]

Yeah, I like your idea better then mine.  It would be easier to invite the 
kid over, then trying to do a speech with the whole class.

Eva
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] coming to my defense


> Gee, if she's actually a friend of Gab's, invite her over for a sleepover 
> and cook a nice supper for them, play some games, do some laundry, go for 
> a walk, ...
> If she's not a friend, do it any way.  Here's an opportunity to teach a 
> child a very valuable lesson.
> Barbara
>
> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:29 PM
> To: "blind parents" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blparent] coming to my defense
>
>> Ok, this is how it went.  Kiana accused Gab of wearing the same dress 2 
>> days
>> in a row.  Gab said she had not, that the day before she had worn tan 
>> pants
>> and her spirit shirt.  Kiana said that Gab had not.  So then Gab told her 
>> if
>> she didn't believe her, she could ask her mom.  So then Kiana told Gab 
>> that
>> blind people didn't know anything and they were stupid.  Gab said she 
>> wanted
>> to hit her, but did not.  Gab told her that blind people could do 
>> anything
>> except drive.   Gab told her that I knew everything especially what she 
>> wore
>> each day.  Kiana just laughed at her and insisted that blind people were
>> nothing.  Of course, my daughter came home in tears.
>>
>> I tried to convince her that it didn't matter what her friend said, but 
>> it
>> mattered to my daughter.  So I called Kiana's grandmother and told her 
>> what
>> happened.  She said that her granddaughter didn't mean to offend me.  I 
>> saw
>> Kiana at the bus stop this morning and really espected an apology, but 
>> there
>> was none coming.  I guess I should be satisfied that her grandmother knew
>> what happened, but it really bugs me. V
>>
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