[blparent] EXTERNAL:Re: Parenting Without Sight: What AttorneysAnd SocialWorkers Should Know About Blindness

[Elizabeth Cooks]

I agree with


rebecca.  Just tell them you have some useful information for them, and just 
give it to them.  They are more likely to use it if they know it's out 
there.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] EXTERNAL:Re: Parenting Without Sight: What 
AttorneysAnd SocialWorkers Should Know About Blindness


> Eric,
> You're not stepping on toes, you are providing useful data.
> I assume that you are a dad or soon to be dad? When you go with your
> kids or wife or baby mommy to appointments, mention the books and give
> them to whoever you see. If you aren't going to appointments, start
> doing that, at least to some of them.
> What am I missing? This is not a personal transaction we're talking
> about. Stepping on toes would be say if you came into my house and
> insisted on making a meal I didn't need or want you to make. You're not
> engaging with these people ona personal level. Remember that. Also,
> don't ask if you can give the books to them, simply give them the books.
> They may or may not use them, but you do not ask if it is okay to give
> them the books, you tell them and then you do it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Leslie Hamric
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 10:13 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: EXTERNAL:Re: [blparent] Parenting Without Sight: What Attorneys
> And SocialWorkers Should Know About Blindness
>
> Hi Eric.  I have some ideas of how you can hand out these books without
> becoming solicitus.  Please write me off list and we'll discuss it.
> Thanks.
> Leslie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Eric Calhoun
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 1:37 PM
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blparent] Parenting Without Sight: What Attorneys And Social
> Workers Should Know About Blindness
>
> Hi people, did any of you read Gary Wunder's article in the Braille
> Monitor?
> It was about Erika Johnson and Blake Sinnett trying to get back Mikaela
> from
> from Child Protective Services after 57 days.  This outrages me!  And
> I'm
> sure it does to all of you.  I've heard that Missouri, the "Show Me
> State,"
> didn't help their cause by sqpeeding up the custody process.  I hear
> that
> NFB has booklets called: Parenting Without Sight:
> What Attorneys and Social Workers Should Know About Blindness.  However,
> I
> need to know the cost of these booklets.  Also, I plan to hand these
> booklets out at hospitals.  Why do I want to do this as a Christmas
> project?
> Because I would like to educate.  So here's my question to you, as an
> independent advocate for the blind, who is blind myself: How do I hand
> these
> booklets out without soliciting?  I know what the message is in these
> booklets, so how can I convey it without stepping on attorneys' and
> social
> workers' shoes?
>
> Any help from any of you, on or off-list, would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Eric
>
>
> Excuse me!  Baseball has no offseason!  What?  I said!: There is no
> offseason on the baseball list.  You may sign up at eric at pmpmail.com,
> and
> add me on Facebook: eric at pmpmail.com...  Happy Holidays from the
> Baseball
> List.  Look at the calendar and put a little holiday in your heart!
> Eric
> from Los Angeles!
>
>
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