[blparent] sighted children at convention?

[Barbara Pierce]

For door prizes contact Dianne McGeorge early in the convention. They are
always looking for help. I have lost track of who is running the NFB store
at convention, but they too can usually use any responsible, sighted kids
who are willing to run around. Go to the NFB part of the exhibit hall and
ask who is in charge of the store.

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 10:47 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] sighted children at convention?

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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