[blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes

Fri Feb 24 21:37:13 UTC 2012

Thanks maybe some day we can put our worped little brains together.
Kate
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samara Raine" <samararaine at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes


> 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>
>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
>>>>>> 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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