[blparent] How do you start to explain people's unfounded fearsto your children?

[Judy Jones]

It isn't anything to worry about ahead of time.  As your child grows, you do 
too, and when the time comes, should something happen like that, you will 
have the foundation with your child and the experience that will help you 
handle it.

Judy


-----Original Message----- 
From: Tara Briggs via blparent
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 7:43 AM
To: Sheila Leigland ; Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] How do you start to explain people's unfounded 
fearsto your children?

Hi, I hope you will share what ends up happening. I have a seven month old 
baby. I am not looking forward to the time when it is my turn to experience 
what you have experienced. I'm so sorry! I hope things are able to work out 
well!

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 14, 2015, at 10:11 PM, Sheila Leigland via blparent 
> <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> you have explained unfounded fears very well and I'm sorry that you have 
> this situation.
>
>> On 3/14/2015 6:14 PM, Jo Elizabeth Pinto via blparent wrote:
>> My sighted daughter just turned seven years old a few weeks ago.  Hard to 
>> believe.  Anyway, we’re having one of the first really beautiful sunny 
>> spring days, so she asked me to take her to a nearby park.  She invited a 
>> neighbor boy her age to come.  His parents said no, there had to be an 
>> adult along.  She told his parents her mom would be taking them.  The dad 
>> said no, he meant an adult who could see.  She came home really confused, 
>> of course.  She said we go to the park all the time, which we do.  So I 
>> tried to explain that some parents don’t feel that their kids will be 
>> safe supervised by a blind adult.  Her next natural question was why.  I 
>> told her some parents worry that their kids will get hurt if no one is 
>> watching them.  Her answer was that we’ve been to the park millions of 
>> times and she hasn’t gotten hurt.  Also true.  She’s a smart girl.  I 
>> told her some parents haven’t ben around blind people much.  The odd 
>> thing is, the neighbor boy’s mom is one of the higher-ups in the special 
>> ed department with the local school district.  So I’m just wondering, is 
>> there anything in particular you have said to your kids that has helped 
>> make sense of nonsense?
>>
>> 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.
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