[blparent] What's up with people anyway?

Erin Rumer erinrumer at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 16:01:54 UTC 2012 

Okay, it sounds like she's got something going on for sure so I'd put her on
my people to avoid list most definitely.

Erin

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 10:07 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] What's up with people anyway?

If you mean like a mental handicap or illness, I don't think so.  I've known
her, at least in passing, for maybe a year or so.  At first I did my best to
get acquainted with her and a few of the other moms in the neighborhood, but
I found it really difficult to break the ice no matter how hard I tried.  So
I decided it was fine to leave it at hello and goodbye, and let the girls
play together if they wanted to.

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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From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 8:28 PM
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] What's up with people anyway?

> This chick has some issues!  No really, it seems like she has some 
> problems with what we'd consider normal communication and manners.  
> Maybe she really does have something cognitive or mental going on.  
> That would explain her behavior a little more.  How long have you 
> known this mom?  It's sad because she's going to teach her daughter 
> bad communication skills which is really going to hurt her daughter in 
> life.
>
> Erin
>
> -----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 6:06 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] What's up with people anyway?
>
> The weird part of that was she didn't even ask me, look, will you 
> watch the kids for a few minutes so I can take a shower.  She just 
> went in the house, and I heard water running and then the blow dryer.
>
> 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: "Kate McEachern" <kflsouth at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 4:47 PM
> To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] What's up with people anyway?
>
>> 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, 
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