[nfb-talk] Having Sleepovers with sighted friends

Mon Feb 27 15:49:34 UTC 2017

.That sounds like so much fun thanks for your reply

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> On Feb 27, 2017, at 10:37 AM, Sherry Gomes via nfb-talk <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> My friends called my parents by their first names or even mom and dad. Even
> when I was an adult and didn't live at home, I could bring friends over to
> stay with me, even boyfriends. My dad didn't care, once I was an adult. I
> must have had slumber parties for almost all my birthday from the time I was
> in junior high, or maybe before.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Judy Jones
> via nfb-talk
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 8:33 AM
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> Cc: Judy Jones <Judy.Jones at icbvi.idaho.gov>
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Having Sleepovers with sighted friends
> 
> Yep, ours was the same.
> 
> Judy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sherry
> Gomes via nfb-talk
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 8:13 AM
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> Cc: Sherry Gomes
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Having Sleepovers with sighted friends
> 
> Yep, my parents encouraged it too. And my house became one of those where
> the friends of ours liked to gather. The fun house, so to speak. 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Judy Jones
> via nfb-talk
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 8:10 AM
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> Cc: Judy Jones <Judy.Jones at icbvi.idaho.gov>
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Having Sleepovers with sighted friends
> 
> Oh yes, I remember the sleep-overs and when older, slumber parties, both at
> my house, and at others' houses, what mad wonderful fun, and great memories.
> Even in college, I was known to bring friends home with me for fun weekends,
> and my parents encouraged it.
> 
> Judy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sherry
> Gomes via nfb-talk
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 8:07 AM
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> Cc: Sherry Gomes
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Having Sleepovers with sighted friends
> 
> I had lots of sleepovers with sighted friends. And had lots of friends sleep
> over at my house. It was great and one of my better memories of childhood. I
> was excessively shy, and being around just a few friends, or just one friend
> overnight helped me get to know them better and gain confidence. And it was
> fun! That was the sixties and seventies. I don't know if things were less
> frightening for parents, or if my stepmom talked to my friends' parents
> first.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Buddy
> Brannan via nfb-talk
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 8:01 AM
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> Cc: Buddy Brannan <buddy at brannan.name>
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Having Sleepovers with sighted friends
> 
> Of course they should. As a parent myself, I can tell you that this is
> absolutely, period amen not a blindness issue. Good for your parents for not
> allowing a sleepover with people that she presumably had never met. Of
> course, a hundred years after, we don't know the circumstances surrounding
> this. Was there enough time that she could have talked to or met with this
> other family? 
> 
> --
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> Phone: 814-860-3194
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> Email: buddy at brannan.name
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> 
> 
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>>> On Feb 27, 2017, at 9:55 AM, roanna bacchus via nfb-talk
>> <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Members,
>> 
>> The subject of this email stems from an incident that happened to me 
>> when
> I was in sixth grade.  One of my sighted friends invited me to a sleepover
> at her house.  When I went home that evening, I asked my mom if I could go
> to the sleepover and she said no.  I was so sad because I could not go to my
> friend's house.  My parents did not allow me to go because thex did not know
> my sighted friend or her parents.  Should blind kids be allowed to attend
> sleepovers with their sighted friends? Hope to hear from you soon.
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