[blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!

Brandy W ballstobooks at gmail.com
Sat Jun 9 01:40:35 UTC 2012 

Really? Would you leave the list so we could move on happily! 



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-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Gabe Vega
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 9:38 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!

um, I'm really sorry for even responding but didn't you say like 30 minutes
ago you were leaving the list? or did you just say that for attention?

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On Jun 8, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Brandy W wrote:

> Nope dressed in a very nice suit, or expensive suit, but saying the 
> price is bostful and bragging, and makes me believe you are quite 
> insecure which is really the only reason people feel the need to tare
people down as you do.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled 
> out is a spark."
> - Victor Hugo
> 
> Brandy Wojcik  Discovery Toys Educational Consultant and Team leader
> (512) 689-5045
> www.playtoachieve.com
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> 
> Looking forward to helping you with your educational toy needs!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> On Behalf Of Gabe Vega
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 5:03 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!
> 
> its been my experience that people who complain about stuff like that 
> are frankly filled with envy. also, I mentioned it to raise a point of 
> the contrast in how we were dressed. I'm sure anyone looking at the 
> email objectively would have seen that.
> Gabe Vega - Sent from my Macbook Air
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> On Jun 8, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Jo Elizabeth Pinto wrote:
> 
>> Glad it wasn't just me who felt that way.
>> 
>> Jo Elizabeth
>> 
>> "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it 
>> has a song."  Maya Angelou
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
>> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 12:07 PM
>> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!
>> 
>>>      Gabe, why do you mention the price of your suit? What are you
> trying to prove. You would have done better had you say "AndI was 
> dressed nicely" without mentioning the price. That was tasteless.
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gabe Vega
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 7:56 PM
>>> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!
>>> 
>>> I just went through this at my son's graduation. My 11 year old 
>>> daughter
> took some scissors and cut holes on the knees of her pants. to look 
> like the other little girls and people she sees that wear the new 
> style of pants these days. they are holes with a shredded look to them.
>>> 
>>> Well anyways, I wore a suit and Tie about a $500.00 dollar get up to 
>>> my
> son's once in a life time Kindar Garden graduation and I was walking 
> around with my daughter and these holy pants. and when I found out a 
> world of embarrassment went over me and I was shocked and didn't know 
> what to do. so I know how this feels, kids some times do the weirdest
things.
>>> Gabe Vega - Sent from my Macbook Air Phone Voice/Text: (623) 
>>> 565-9357
>>> Email: theblindtech at gmail.com
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>>> 
>>> On Jun 6, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Jennifer Jackson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Jo Elizabeth,
>>>> 
>>>> I think you have touched on a point here that is particular to 
>>>> being a blind parent. When our children go out badly dressed people 
>>>> assume that it is because those poor pitiful children have blind 
>>>> parents who can not provide for them. Yes, we can all say that we 
>>>> should not care what other people think, but that is nonsense. We, 
>>>> just like everyone else, are part of the social contract and there 
>>>> are consequences to ignoring the standards of that contract. It 
>>>> really is a big deal if the people in our child's school think he 
>>>> is being neglected. Often these are consequences that a child is 
>>>> not mature enough to understand or respond too. That being said, my 
>>>> pride is an
> issue here too.
>>>> 
>>>> It may comfort you to know Jo Elizabeth that that torn clothing 
>>>> look seems to be a thing. I recently had to explain to my son that 
>>>> the shirt he has with the arms torn out is acceptable, just barely, 
>>>> to meet the you must where clothes at home standard, but it is not 
>>>> ok to wear out of our yard. Of course the fact that he sees other 
>>>> adults at the store dressed in the same kind of shirt with pajama 
>>>> pants on, or their underwear showing, does not help support my 
>>>> point. The no hat or coat fashion requirement is also baffling to 
>>>> me. It is apparently more important to look right than it is to not 
>>>> be cold, which just supports my earlier point about logical 
>>>> consequences. :)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Jennifer
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>>> [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth 
>>>> Pinto
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 1:42 PM
>>>> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!
>>>> 
>>>>> Rebecca, what if the child does not care if his clothes are dirty? 
>>>>> What if he is perfectly willing to go around in dirty clothes? I 
>>>>> know it is summer time now, but my oldest son would go to school 
>>>>> in dirty clothes. I have to have someone sighted go through his 
>>>>> clothes occasionally and pull out things with stains because he 
>>>>> will just wear them that way.
>>>>> 
>>>> Well, maybe he needs to miss opportunities he'd get if he dressed 
>>>> appropriately, being passed over for a date or a volunteer thing or 
>>>> a
> job.
>>>> 
>>>> There is a difference between clothes that stink and stains. I'm 
>>>> not clear which one you're dealing with.
>>>> 
>>>> Truthfully, I've taken to asking Stephen before we go anywhere if 
>>>> he has clothes on that aren't torn.  The last time I didn't ask, he 
>>>> wore a shirt that had one sleeve ripped off and jeans that looked 
>>>> like they'd been through a crocodile attack.  An older man from my 
>>>> church asked me privately if I needed money to get my kids decent 
>>>> clothes, which was totally embarrassing.  Seriously, the next week, 
>>>> the man and his wife brought a bag to me of stuff they'd bought at 
>>>> Target, for both Stephen and Sarah, as if I couldn't provide for them.
>>>> 
>>>> Jo Elizabeth
>>>> 
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