[blparent] Herding Cats and Children

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Good point.  My stepson had two out of the three things mentioned happen to 
him.  He went to the emergency room a couple of times, and the police got 
involved more than I wished they would have, and he had two good parents and 
a stepmom on his side.  I said those things without thinking them through 
fully.

Jo Elizabeth

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-----Original Message----- 
From: Jennifer S Jackson via blparent
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 12:32 PM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Cc: Jennifer S Jackson
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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