[blparent] what blind parents should know:

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Sighted parents aren't perfect, either.  Some parents, blind and sighted, 
just think they are.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 3:53 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] what blind parents should know:

> Yes, jan you have said things that need to be shared. When mark was little 
> a list like this didn't exist. Most of the blind parents that I knew were 
> either partials or were married to sighted spouses. My husband and I are 
> both totally blind and many of our decisions were questioned. We had to 
> come to realize that what others thought couldn't surpass our own 
> judgments or we could loose control of the raising of our son and become 
> ineffective parents. Fortunately we has a very suportive pediatrician that 
> told us very early on not to wet the cometee rais our son. It was the best 
> advice we ever recieved. There is no way to compete with perfection. All 
> parents blind or sighted can only do the best job that they can and trust 
> in themselves.
>
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