[blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes

Fri Feb 24 20:58:39 UTC 2012

LOL Oh definitely not. I have a warped little brain as well. You're not 
alone!

Sam

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kate McEachern" <kflsouth at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes

>I felt a little bad when no one said anything and thought it must have just 
>been my worped little brain.
> Kate
> ----- 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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>>>>> reply-type=original
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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