[blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes

Fri Feb 24 21:44:06 UTC 2012

Sounds good! Grins.

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 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Taking advantage of parenting classes

> 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>
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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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