[blparent] what blind parents should know:

[Veronica Smith]

Someone asked me yesterday if I cook.  I said, well, yes, my family loves my
cooking.  Then she asked me who took care of Gab when she was born, and I
said, "meeee!"  So just because I was feeling like a smarty pants, I threw
in, "I am wonder woman."  Then followed up with, not really, taking care of
a baby whether you are sighted or blind, just takes practice."  When we left
her, I could feel her staring at me.  Not because I am wonder woman, but
because I am crazy. V

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Amanda Winkler
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 5:21 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] what blind parents should know:

Many sighted people can't even imagine how a blind person can take care of a

child.  They really have difficulty in understanding how it is done when 
both parents are totally blind like in my situation.  My husband was asked 
not to long ago by one of his students if we had a nanny.  He laughed and 
said no, they don't pay me that much to have that kind of multi 
millionaire's luxury.  Well I guess Audrey is stuck with mom for now. :)


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From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 3:50 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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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