[blparent] Herding Cats and Children

[Jody Ianuzzi]

Hello again stargazer,

Oh I know that if something happened we would get through it, but there is always the fear of an arbitrary and false accusation that we are not good parents because we can't see.

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 2:51 PM, Star Gazer via blparent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>                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.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jennifer S
> Jackson via blparent
> Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 2:32 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List' <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Jennifer S Jackson <jennifersjackson at att.net>
> 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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