Category: Parent Talk
Just curious guys. The title of this subject explains everything haha I'm only 13.
How do sighted parents raise kids? With alternative techniques, blind people can be just as affective parents as sighted ones. Things aren't really that different, from what I've heard and witnessed from blind parents I know.
Kiddies don't come with an instruction manual. Ah well if they did, they'd try to eat it in the first year, deface it by coloring in the pages in the first five, do projects about it in grade school, argue about it as teenagers, and psychoanalyze it in college.
So no, no parents get an instruction manual, we all just figure it out as we go. If you're curious about something specific, though, you ought to just post that question: parenting's pretty broad.
I'm going to take a bit of a controversial stance here, so I'm sorry if I'm being offensive. That seems an awfully narrow-minded question for a blind person to ask. what are your expectations of yourself as a blind person? How have your parents raised you to think about blindness? I understand that you're 13, and that's still a young age, and you're entitled to your questions, I just thought I'd put it out there. An attitude like that raises questions in my mind and makes me wonder what else you wonder about the abilities of blind people. The other question that begs to be asked is, don't you have awhile to go before worrying about parenting techniques? Again, I apologize for being harsh, but just thought I'd put it out there.
you don't know how long that person has even been blind, or how blind that person is they may be pritty well off as far as sight, so just answer the questions and don't throw stones.
parrenting is tough no matter how you slice it, sighted or blind, def or in a wheel chair. kids are puzzles, verry complex ones, there's no spasiffick way to raze a kiddo, speshilly when your blind, people adapt, as someone said above, you do the best you can with what you have. you learn to use your ears and sinces to the best of your ability, you learn verry quickly that if your tottaler has gotten really quiet, that there probably in to something. some of it just comes to you and some things you learn as you go along, and all of this is the same thing i'd tell a sighted person who wanted to know how to raze a kid sighted. don't leave little babys by drafty windows, never let your kid play with something that is small enough to get stuck in their wind pipe, keep things organized, and put up, well out of reach. love them, and teach them to love back, all of this stuff is normal every day sighted people blind or sighted do, there's really no different way, for a fiew small exceptions.
and speaking of, my tottaler, is too quiet, so this is it for my ramble.
I probably wouldn't have responded that way were it not for some of the other things this user has posted...but you're right, people do have the right to ask questions.
for the record, there is a book that is the manual for parenting. it is called the bible. lots of good advice in there if we care to look.
yeah don't throw stones. Thank you. these are such good answers.
So curious. Was this a sighted plant, or a hacker or what? They are asking lame, far too simple questions. Call me paranoid, but could they be harvesting answers to post to their blog for interest, or for something more sinister, to make blind people look stupid? Just wondering. Haven't been active around here lately, why was their account disabled, admin? I know you must have some kind of confidentiality code, but was this found to be a hacker of some sort? Enquiring minds want to know.