[nagdu] Explaining to parents that guide dogs are useful

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert J Rizzi" <albert at myblindspot.org>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Explaining to parents that guide dogs are useful

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Mark J. Cadigan
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:59 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Explaining to parents that guide dogs are useful
>
> Thanks all of you for your suggestions. I like both the Seeing Eye, and 
> GDB.
>
> Ware as I live in MA the Seeing Eye is a lot closer. I am a junior in high
> school so I haven't yet decided what college I will be attending. What I 
> do
> know, is I want to be in a big city with access to a good public transit
> network such as the MBTA. I currently take the T to and from places all 
> over
>
> Boston using my cane. Because of this independence I am having difficulty
> explaining to my parents that a dog would only enhance it making me a more
> competent, safer, and faster traveler. Have any of you ever experienced
> complaints about your dog either shedding or smelling bad? Is this a 
> problem
>
> with roommates in college? Like most teenagers my room is never clean for
> long, but it is never that messy. I always take excellent care of all my
> equipment, and don't see how the maintenance of a dog will be a problem. 
> My
> parents seem to have concerns of how I will maintain a dog in college. Any
> thoughts?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Albert J Rizzi" <albert at myblindspot.org>
> To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Explaining to parents that guide dogs are useful
>
>
> > First, where are you located? Maybe there is a guide program in your 
> > area
> > which would allow you to sort of host a dog for sometime until the guide
> > is
> > matched up with a handler. This would help to introduce your parents to
> > the
> > concepts  and strength having a guide could and would lend to your life.
> > You
> > could also let them know that their role in your life is to make you as
> > completely independent as possible and that the introduction of a guide
> > dog
> > into your life would do just that. you could also play on their 
> > sympathies
> > by letting them know you are looking to be able to walk independently 
> > with
> > friends and thereby depend less on their eyes and more so on your own
> > senses
> > coupled with the security and independence a guide would lend to your
> > life.
> > Where are you intending on going to college? If you are hoping to go 
> > away,
> > your parents would need to understand  that a guide would help you to 
> > move
> > swiftly and securely through a campus ensuring your timely attendance to
> > all
> > your classes. Again, maybe a talk with a teacher/principal  might help
> > advance your crusade.
> >
> > Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.
> > CEO/Founder
> > My Blind Spot, Inc.
> > 90 Broad Street - 18th Fl.
> > New York, New York  10004
> > www.myblindspot.org
> > PH: 917-553-0347
> > Fax: 212-858-5759
> > "The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the one who 
> > is
> > doing it."
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> > Behalf
> > Of Mark J. Cadigan
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:11 PM
> > To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> > Subject: Re: [nagdu] Explaining to parents that guide dogs are useful
> >
> > Dan W,
> >
> > My mom claims to be terrified of dogs, but yet we have a pet dog.  My
> > parents claim that a guide dog will smell, then I point out that if you
> > take
> >
> > care of it properly it won't. Then I point out people we know with guide
> > dogs that don't smell. My dad's response to this is to tell this story 
> > of
> > his friend's son's roommate's friend had a roommate with a smelly guide
> > dog.
> >
> > This happened so long ago, and is so far removed from the situation that 
> > I
> > can't see how it possibly has any bearing on the current situation. Also
> > that story is so convoluted that is impossible to verify. And the 
> > argument
> > goes on and on Ad nauseam. It is getting to the point that I think they
> > are
> > just attempting to exorcize there ability to make arbitrary decisions.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Dan Weiner" <dcwein at dcwein.cnc.net>
> > To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'"
> > <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: [nagdu] Explaining to parents that guide dogs are useful
> >
> >
> >> Well, first question is "Is the reason your parents don't support your
> >> idea
> >> of getting a dog that they don't like dogs?"--smile.
> >> Second of all, what is your parents objection, I mean presumably you're
> >> the
> >> one who's blind so maybe you might know a little better than they do
> >> whether
> >> a dog would enhance your lifestyle or not.
> >> I'm fortunate that by the time I wanted a dog, my parents had figured 
> >> out
> >> I'd pretty much do what I wanted without permission, so my Dad just 
> >> asked
> >> one or two feeble questions and then left it alone.
> >> He asked "Are you sure a dog will be worth the trouble, how do you know
> >> it'll work out."
> >> I explained that, never having a dog, a guide dog, that is,  I'd need 
> >> to
> >> find it out for myself and I really wanted to take care of the dog and
> >> was
> >> ready.
> >> When I got home, he admired the dog enormously. But he asked the second
> >> day
> >> back home if the dog really had to go out with us to breakfast. I said 
> >> it
> >> did, when he seemed to balk I said "I love you Dad, and enjoy going 
> >> out,
> >> but
> >> this is important to me and if you don't want my guide dog than I'm
> >> afraid
> >
> >> I
> >> won't be going".
> >> Dead silence ensued, and the issue never came up again.  As a matter of
> >> fact, my Dad adopted my first hound after he retired and loved him. 
> >> The
> >> dog, Grant, even went to my Dad's funeral's
> >> The only thing I wasn't really ready for was the access issues. Being 
> >> the
> >> brilliant young man I was--smile--it never occurred to me that people
> >> would
> >> have issues with a dog, I mean access issues to public places.
> >>
> >> So, tell us more what the problem is and we'll be happy to talk about 
> >> it.
> >> There are some folks on this list who can be very good role models and
> >> mentors, I wish there had been such a list when I started out.  But, 
> >> then
> >> I
> >> don't think there were such things as computer lists--smile.
> >>
> >> Good luck
> >>
> >> Dan W. and the Carter Dog
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> >> Behalf
> >> Of Mark J. Cadigan
> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:17 PM
> >> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
> >> Subject: [nagdu] Explaining to parents that guide dogs are useful
> >>
> >> Hello list,
> >>
> >> I am new to this list, and I am thinking of getting a guide dog for 
> >> when
> >> I
> >> go to college. The only problem I am having is convincing my parents 
> >> that
> >> a
> >> guide dog is a useful mobility tool.  As you can probably guess, that 
> >> is
> >> a
> >> large obstacle. I am currently in high school, so I have to abide by my
> >> parent's wishes, or at least for now. What I am asking for is how best 
> >> to
> >> explain to them, that guide dogs are useful mobility tools, that will
> >> enhance my independence rather than detract from it. I have given them
> >> literature, DVDs and have attempted to talk to them. Any instructional
> >> materiel finds its way into the circular file, and they change the
> >> subject
> >> when I talk to them. Any and all suggestions are welcome.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Mark
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