[blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes

Fri Feb 24 19:44:22 UTC 2012

I must be dumb as a post.  I missed it till Rebecca pointed it out. 
*Smile.*

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: "Samara Raine" <samararaine at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 12:37 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes

> *bursts out laughing* My post? The leg up thing? If that's what you mean, 
> I was giggling as I wrote it. LOL! Wondered if anyone would say something. 
> *grins*
>
> Samara
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes
>
>
>> Best unintentional play on words seen on this list.
>> I love it!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Samara Raine
>> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:26 PM
>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>> 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
>>> Message-ID: <SNT116-DS336E8EBA4E5A59E48CB80AC640 at phx.gbl>
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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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