[blparent] BlParent Digest, Vol 145, Issue 1

[Robert Shelton]

These are really great posts on a complicated question. I'll start by saying
that on occasion, I've used my kids to accomplish necessary objectives. For
example, when we lived in Upper MI., my oldest son and I would go to the
little grocery, and I would have him find the products we needed. He was 12,
and that was his job. After all, he had to eat too.

I also paid my boys to read a computer screen in the days before screen
readers. Dad had a job, and that job depended on doing computer stuff, and,
again, we all liked to eat and have a roof over our heads. They actually
worked their way out of that job because we built a perfectly functional
screen reader for my then state-of-the-art Commodore 64.

J. E. I think your daughter may be starting a phase where she wants to help,
not because she thinks you're helpless, but because she's growing up and
feeling a sense of responsibility. That may be visible to others, and that
may be why you saw similar events in a short period of time. While mostly
all of this is positive, you do need to think about how you want to handle
such interactions. It sounds to me like you were both graceful if a little
nonplussed.


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