[blparent] What's up with people anyway?

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Kate McEachern <kflsouth at gmail.com> wrote:

Wow she left you to wotch her kid so she could take a break? Well, how nice 
for her no one comes over for a playdate and asks to woch the kids wile I 
take a nap. Don't take it personal the chick sounds dence and her kid will 
be the one doing stupid stuff at 15. Just wait till you get to say I told 
you so.
Kate
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melissa Ann Riccobono" <melissa at riccobono.us>
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] What's up with people anyway?


> Wow, this is totally crazy! I thought what she was going to tell you was
> that you obviously weren't watching her daughter since she was attempting
> something so dangerous... Even though you were watching and preventing 
> her
> from doing it... In some ways I'm glad I was wrong because obviously she
> knew you were watching... I think it's actually more disturbing though 
> that
> she asked you to leave because of your actions. This world can certainly 
> be
> a crazy place, and it's very sad that people can't watch out for each 
> others
> children anymore.
> Melissa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 1:12 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] What's up with people anyway?
>
> Sarah and I were outside yesterday--nice day, in the seventies, today it's
> thirty-five. Anyway, we were over at the house of one of Sarah's friends,
> playing out in the front yard. The mom had gone inside for a quick 
> shower,
> which I felt good about because I was thinking it meant she trusted me
> enough to leave me with her daughter for a short time. Maybe she would 
> have
> gone anyway, even if I wasn't there.
>
> So the deal is, her daughter wanted to climb up in a tree. The branch was
> too high for her to reach, so she dragged a toy picnic table over and 
> stood
> on it. The branch was still too high. The next thing she did was get a
> chair and put it on top of the picnic table. She intended to climb onto 
> the
> table, then onto the chair, and finally up to the tree branch, which hung
> out over the sidewalk. I told her that would be dangerous and she better
> leave tree climbing till she was bigger or could find a tree with lower
> branches, or till she had someone strong enough there who could boost her
> up.
>
> The words were barely out of my mouth when her mom yanks the front door 
> open
> and tells me, "Well, I guess you can just leave then!"
>
> I was shocked. Apparently she didn't like me telling her kid what to do.
> But for God's sake, if I wasn't around, I would want somebody to tell 
> Sarah
> not to do something they thought would be dangerous. I felt like saying
> that next time, I'd just let this woman's daughter fall on her head on the
> sidewalk, but I didn't figure that was a constructive thing to say, so I
> kept my mouth shut.
>
> When I was growing up in this same town, any neighbor could have told me 
> not
> to do something unsafe, or not to do anything at all, for that matter, and 
> I
> would have listened. It seems that the "don't tell my kid what to do"
> mentality has taken over, even where safety is concerned. It worries me a
> little because sooner or later, and not much later at that, I'll have to 
> be
> letting Sarah go out on her own a bit. So if she decides to balance a 
> chair
> on a picnic table and then try to climb up, nobody's going to say anything
> to her because it's against the social rules to caution other people's 
> kids?
> It's not like I yelled at the kid, or told her she had a stupid idea, or
> anything like that.
>
> Sorry, rant over, I just haven't been able to get the incident out of my
> mind.
>
> 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
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