[blparent] sighted children at convention?

[Amy Murillo-Hicks]

I often bring Jordan in with me to work,and he volunteers running errands. 
I'm sure he would enjoy helping at convention. I am a pretty new member, and 
this is my second convention. Is there someone I should contact who 
coordinates volunteers/runners and things like that?
Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Pierce" <bpierce at oberlin.net>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] sighted children at convention?


> Admittedly my preteens and teens were at convention a lot of years ago, 
> but
> they came to work. I let them off the leash to go swimming often, but they
> delivered door prizes. Runners are always needed, and the girls loved it.
> This was before sighted teens had any programming options, but they always
> wanted to go to convention, and all of my kids are now adults who 
> volunteer
> their time to help others. I think convention was part of that training.
> Barbara
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Amy Murillo-Hicks
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:29 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] sighted children at convention?
>
> Hi,
>
> I am so behind on my e-mails, and just saw your post.  My son is 13 as 
> well,
>
> and I am deciding if I want to bring him along.  I am coming with my work
> with about 13 other students and staff, and trying to determine if there
> will be stuff to do that he will be  interested in while I am there and
> busy.
>
> Jordan has a good grasp on how to handle situations where both adults and
> children behave badley.  Maybe he and your son could share some 
> experiences.
>
> I'm sure there are some things that he feels that he may not tell me about
> because I'm mom.  It's good to know there will be another 13 year old boy.
>
> Has anyone else brought their kids to convention, and what did they do. 
> Is
> it OK to send them to hang out with the blind teen activities, how does 
> that
>
> work out?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Julie J" <julielj at windstream.net>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 6:13 AM
> Subject: [blparent] sighted children at convention?
>
>
>> Hello all!
>>
>> It's been a while since I've been on this list. It's good to be back.
>>
>> My Kiddo is 13 now.  Time flies when you're having fun...or something 
>> like
>
>> that.  *smile*  I know a lot of you have younger children, but I'm hoping
>> there will be someone with some ideas for me.
>>
>> We had an incident in a store yesterday which really bothered my son.
>> There were some children in line behind us who were rude on a variety of
>> counts.  The rudeness that really bothered my son was when the kids
>> decided that me being blind was funny and worthy of making fun of me for
>> it.   I ignored them for a couple of reasons.  I really had no clue what
>> to say.  but the mother was standing right there and I have difficulty
>> parenting other people's kids in front of their parents.
>>
>> I know I probably should have said something, but it is too late for this
>> episode.  I'll come up with something for next time.  What I'm most
>> concerned with is my son.   He was really upset about these kids.
>>
>> My son is sighted.  He has been around blind people all of his life and
>> sees it as normal.  I am the only blind person in my town or at least the
>> only blind person out and about anyway.    He will be coming with me to
>> the NFB national convention again this summer.  I think it's important 
>> for
>
>> him as much as it is for me, especially now that we aren't around many
>> blind people on a regular basis.
>>
>> I know he gets lots of questions about what it is like to have a blind
>> mom.  I talk to him about it and try to help the best that I can.  but
>> what I really think he needs is to talk to other sighted children with
>> blind parents who have struggled with similar issues.
>>
>> Is there any sort of opportunity like this at convention?  If not, are
>> there parents here that would be interested in getting a group together?
>>
>> thanks!
>> Julie
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