[blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes

Fri Feb 24 19:52:28 UTC 2012

Nah, you're not dumb. It's subtle enough that it doesn't jump out at you I 
think. Haha.

Sam

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes

>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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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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