[blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes

Fri Feb 24 18:04:05 UTC 2012

Hi all.  As someone who has taken the first parenting course with Sharon
through Hadley, I say it was the best thing I ever did!  Knowledge is power
no matter how much previous childcare experience you have had and the
alternative techniques you get from Hadley's course are very useful.
Leslie

-----Original Message-----
From: sharon howerton [mailto:shrnhow at att.net] 
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 7:32 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes

Yes, we are one more resource and unlike reading a book, we can talk about
the issues you read as part of your assignments.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Samara Raine" <samararaine at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes

> I'm really looking forward to the class. There's a lot of good 
> information in there and I'm a bit of a knowledge hound. I'm already 
> reading parenting books because I feel they have valuable information. 
> I may not follow a step-by-step method of parenting based on a book, 
> but I've already learned a lot I didn't know before by reading. I'm 
> sure you can teach me even more.
>
> Samara
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sharon howerton" <shrnhow at att.net>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes
>
>
>> Samara, I look forward to having you work with me.
>> Sharon
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Samara Raine" <samararaine at gmail.com>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:25 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes
>>
>>
>>>I just enrolled for the first parenting course at Hadley. All I need 
>>>to do now is get my eye report sent in. We will begin trying for a 
>>>baby next month. Conception can take awhile, but it's never too early 
>>>to get a leg up, I think.
>>>
>>> Samara
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
>>> To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:32 PM
>>> Subject: [blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes
>>>
>>>
>>>> Jo Elizabeth,
>>>>
>>>> I agree with you. I didn't mean to suggest it was wrong for Hadley 
>>>> to offer parenting classes or for anyone to take advantage of such 
>>>> a class.
>>>> Like you, even though I have child-care experience, and I have been 
>>>> a second mommy to Penny for more than a year (complicated story 
>>>> with
>>>> Penny) my husband and I are reading a ton of material and looking 
>>>> into various classes and groups we can participate in. As prepared 
>>>> as you think you are, once baby arrives, so much changes and a lot 
>>>> ends up involving common sense and quick problem solving skills, 
>>>> grin, regardless of a disability or not. My comments were directed 
>>>> solely at societal ideas still buying into the notion that 
>>>> blindness is an automatic risk factor when parenting, and that 
>>>> anyone would insist we "prove" our ability to parent based only on 
>>>> disability. Hadley's course sounds interesting and definitely something
to check out.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
>>>> Read my blog at:
>>>> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>>>>
>>>> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
>>>> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>>>>
>>>> Message: 8
>>>> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:57:37 -0700
>>>> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
>>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Child Protective Services & blind parenting
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>>>>
>>>> Congratulations on your pregnancy, Bridgit.  I agree that we 
>>>> shouldn't have to prove our ability as parents just because of our 
>>>> blindness.  But I also believe that, at least for me, I couldn't be 
>>>> too prepared.  The thing I liked about the Hadley courses is that 
>>>> there were tips included from other blind parents, some of which I 
>>>> borrowed for my own box of tricks.
>>>>
>>>> I have a file tucked away in a drawer that includes my certificates 
>>>> from
>>>>
>>>> Hadley, the documentation from the baby care class I took at the 
>>>> hospital before Sarah was born, the report from Social Services 
>>>> that says nothing was found to be amiss at my house, the letter 
>>>> from the home nurse stating that I finished the visitation program, 
>>>> the notes from our pediatrician from each yearly visit at which 
>>>> everything was said to be fine, and the results from the voluntary 
>>>> test at the health department that told me my daughter was
>>>>
>>>> developing within normal emotional and social limits.  If and when 
>>>> I ever have trouble again, from my own family or elsewhere, I'll be 
>>>> well armed.
>>>>
>>>> Even Sarah's dad thinks I'm at least a little paranoid.  Once 
>>>> burned, twice shy.
>>>>
>>>> One final thing--I fear the day when every parent has to take 
>>>> classes or get certified.  I've heard people suggest that, usually 
>>>> in the context of teen pregnancies.  But I know full well that 
>>>> blind parents would have a devil of a time passing any class or 
>>>> certification that could be proposed, not because of lack of 
>>>> ability, but because it would take proving ourselves to a whole new 
>>>> level.  Scary thought.
>>>>
>>>> Jo Elizabeth
>>>>
>>>>
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