[blparent] what blind parents should know:

[Veronica Smith]

True true true.  In fact, it was my sighted friend who's child fell from the
counter in the bathroom and broke his arm.  It could happen to any of us,
but it was not. It was my sighted friend's child who squoze all the
toothpaste all over the kitchenfloor and spilled red Kool-aid on the white
carpet.  No one is perfect, not a single one of us.  It was a sighted friend
who went out in public with goopy boogers on her shirt and another sighted
parent who lost her child in Walmart.  Nope, we could all do it.  Heck, when
Gab was 3, I lost her in Target.  When I was 3, I got lost in a tiny store.
Yup, no perfect peeps here. V 

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 4:50 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] what blind parents should know:


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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