[Ccb-alumni] Ccb-alumni Digest, Vol 111, Issue 1

[Darian Smith]

why is this, Jordan?
> On Feb 17, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Jordan Mirander via Ccb-alumni <ccb-alumni at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> How can the blind raise a puppy healthy and bright kids? That seems impossible.     How can the blind change  their  diapers? and do all that stuff like keeping track of little kids? This is  impossible impossible impossible. Blindness  is definitely a characteristic that hold you back in this area of life 
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>>  1. Forming a blind parents group or division in Colorado (Nate Trela)
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>> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:54:35 -0700
>> From: Nate Trela <ntrela at gmail.com>
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>> Subject: [Ccb-alumni] Forming a blind parents group or division in
>>   Colorado
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>> For many of us, living the life we want means raising a family, and we
>> know our blindness is a characteristic that shapes how we do some
>> things as parents, but it doesn't define us or limit us. It certainly
>> doesn't prevent us from raising happy, bright and active children.
>> 
>> But we know that to some people - maybe teachers, social workers,
>> neighbors or even our own families - how we do it all can be hard to
>> understand. And maybe sometimes we even wonder if there is a better
>> way to do things like keeping track of a child at a playground,
>> lugging a car seat around just in case you might want to take an Uber
>> later, getting the kids too soccer practice or working through their
>> algebra homework.
>> 
>> So some members of the NFB ? including myself - are working to launch
>> a group or division in the state for blind parents, a place where we
>> can share our successes and challenges, talk shop and be reminded of
>> what we have to look forward to.
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>> We're having an organizational meeting this Saturday - Feb. 20 - at
>> the Colorado Center for the Blind, 2233 W Shepperd Ave., in Littleton.
>> This meeting will begin at either 1 PM or after the Denver chapter
>> meeting concludes, whichever is later.
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>> So please spread the word, and if you can, come down and share your
>> ideas for what we as blind parents can do for each other, what the NFB
>> can do for us and our own parenting stories.
>> 
>> If you can't make it to Littleton this time, please feel free to send
>> thoughts to this list or email me directly at ntrela at gmail.com. And
>> please share this email with anyone you think might be interested.
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>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Nate Trela
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Darian Smith
 President, National Federation of the Blind of California, Community Service Division. 
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> The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
> characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
> expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
> between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
> blindness is not what holds you back
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