[blparent] Herding Cats and Children

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				Amen Jennifer. 
I also thought it was sad that Jodi posted about being relieved when her
kids turned eighteen. How sad to go through nearly two decades being afraid
rather then having the confidence and faith that should something happen,
you and your children would get through it.

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From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jennifer S
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Herding Cats and Children

Please consider the implications of statements about children never having
been to emergency rooms, had police involvement, or caught doing drugs as
clear signs of good parenting. Sometimes bad things happen to all families
and implying that never having such problems is due to good parenting
implies that people who do have any of those struggles are bad parents. Of
course that could be really what you meant by those statements and not an
unintended implication. Good parenting can help avoid such problems, but I
would argue that families who are having these kind of struggles can demand
even better parenting to get through. Just as we do not want our abilities
as parents to be judged only on someone's perhaps erroneous understanding of
blindness, we should not judge other parents whose situation we can not
know.


Jennifer




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