[blparent] Whose rules should take precedence?

[Kate McEachern]

I'm sorry you feel that way, but I dissagree.

Katie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Whose rules should take precedence?


>I respectfully disagree.  The situation could happen between non-blind 
>parents, but I do sort of think it gets magnified by blindness because we 
>as blind parents tend to get pushed around and railroaded more instead of 
>being left alone to parent our children as we please.
>
> 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
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Kate McEachern
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 9:37 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] Whose rules should take precedence?
>
> 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?
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>> Oh, and by the way. This isn't blindness related. :-)
>>
>> Gabe Vega
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>> (623) 565-9357
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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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