[blparent] Parenting with disabilities presentation

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Taking the long view, I would like to see a thoughtful discussion, or maybe 
remarks from adult children who grew up with disabled parents, to let future 
social workers know that having disabled parents, in itself, isn't unfair to 
children.  I think there's a reasonable amount of information, if someone 
wants to search for it, on adaptations that blind people or those with other 
disabilities make so that they can keep their children safe, deliver 
medicine, handle homework, etc.  It's easy enough to go before a class with 
a talking thermometer and have the students say, "Well, how about that!" 
But many of them may have lingering misgivings about whether disabled 
parents make their children too responsible for them, whether the children 
miss out on important parts of their childhood, whether they look back with 
regret, that kind of thing.  It varies from case to case--some disabled 
parents are probably better than others at finding ways to make sure their 
children get to be children, not little caregivers or home bodies.  But it 
would be nice to let budding professionals know that children can, and 
usually do, grow up healthy, happy, and well-adjusted, even though their 
parents have done the job differently in some ways.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may 
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at 
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Anjelina Cruz
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 6:34 AM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Parenting with disabilities presentation

Thanks for the reminder.
The presentation is for an Intorduction to Child Welfare class. The
audience is future Social Workers. Only a few of the members of the
class are going into the field of Child Welfare.

On 11/26/12, Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC) <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com> wrote:
> You've got a broad scope. Start out with that, unless the scope is 
> narrower
> in the presentation.
> Who is the audience? That matters in terms of what you say.
> Nurses working in the maternity ward need a different set of information
> then a group of sixth-grade teachers.
> Can you be more specific in your audience and scope?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Anjelina
> Cruz
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 10:12 AM
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blparent] Parenting with disabilities presentation
>
> Good morning all,
> I'm doing a presentation on parenting with disabilities. As fellow
> parents, what information or misconceptions would you like to
> annonomously share? I'm planning on using information from Through the
> Looking Glass and the NFB parenting without Sight handbook.
> Thanks for any input
> --
> Anjelina
>
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Anjelina

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