[blparent] Whose rules should take precedence?
Kate McEachern
kflsouth at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 03:37:53 UTC 2012
True its not.
Katie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gabe Vega Via Iphone4S" <theblindtech at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Whose rules should take precedence?
> Oh, and by the way. This isn't blindness related. :-)
>
> Gabe Vega
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> On Sep 2, 2012, at 8:14 PM, "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:
>
>> I know this may not sound blindness related, but it kind of is in a way
>> because my daughter’s adopted Nanna tends to take over a lot instead of
>> letting me be the mom. She’s been there all of my daughter’s life,
>> knitted her a blanket, kept her overnight, all the things a grandma loves
>> to do. I love her dearly. But, frankly, she’s pushy.
>>
>> There was a situation that happened today while we were at her house for
>> a barbecue. A bunch of us from church had contributed food.My daughter
>> had eaten a fairly balanced meal, so I wasn’t worried about her
>> nutrition. When it came time for dessert, she chose to have a piece of
>> carrot cake, which she promptly ate the frosting off of and then lost
>> interest in. Par for the course. Then she asked Nanna for some lemon
>> cake. Lots of us were just having little smidges of each kind, so I was
>> surprised when Nanna said no, there was still cake on her plate. I could
>> see it if she hadn’t eaten dinner first, but she had, so I thought that
>> was ridiculous. Trying to keep the mood light, I reached over and took
>> the cake off my daughter’s dish, then said, “Okay, tell Nanna your plate’s
>> clean.” Nanna still refused to give her the lemon cake. My daughter
>> started to pitch a fit in true four-year-old fashion, screeching and
>> waving her arms around. Nanna told her to go sit on the stairs till she
>> was ready to be fit company. I said no, she’s my daughter and I’m in
>> charge here. Nanna told me, raising her voice, that we were in her
>> house, so her rules came first. I said I didn’t appreciate her yelling
>> at me, and that if she wouldn’t serve my daughter a slice of lemon cake,
>> I would do it myself. I guess Nanna’s husband had gotten his fill by
>> that time because he cut my daughter a slice of cake and gave it to her
>> without saying anything.
>>
>> I know that situation should ideally not have happened in front of my
>> daughter, but it did. I’m not looking for anybody to get on my case, but
>> I’m interested in some answers from other blind parents. Whose rules
>> should have taken precedence? Is there anything I can do about it now?
>>
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's
>> brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived
>> and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.--Stephen Jay Gould
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