[blparent] Herding Cats and Children

[Jody Ianuzzi]

Hello Jennifer,

You are absolutely right and I apologize for any feelings that might have been hurt. I know in my own family what you say is very true.  

JODY 🐺
thunderwalker321 at gmail.com

"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."  DOCTOR WHO (Tom Baker)



> On Oct 6, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Jo Elizabeth Pinto via blparent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Jo Elizabeth
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> -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer S Jackson via blparent
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 12:32 PM
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> Cc: Jennifer S Jackson
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Herding Cats and Children
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> 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.
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> Jennifer
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