I agree with you whole-heartedly on that.  However, I think it's doubly
challenging when there's 2 blind parents as opposed to one blind parent.
Our biggest challenge as parents is finding that balance of how much
responsibility and help we lay on our sighted children and seeking outside
help from others.  (This is where we feel that our privacy gets invaded).
As our children have gotten older, we've required more help and
responsibility on them, but at the same time we don't want to lay too much
on them for fear they will resent us once there're up and out of the home.


Sylvia Bernert
"If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it."

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Howard Kaufman
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 10:12 AM
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Subject: Children!!!

One day my eight year old daughter, said Daddy, open your mouth, I have a
surprise for you!  Well foolish trusting me did so, and got a teaspoon of
warm cottage cheese for my trust.  I have promised her that I will tell that
story at her wedding.  No wedding yet, not surprised.

Don't expect children to be adults, and don't allow them to be your eyes,
they will rebel sooner or later and they will have a powerful way to do it.

The other thing she did, was when we went for walks when she was little, she
had to carry and use her own cane.  Not with her sighted Mother, but she
wanted to be like her Daddy.  She was three and used good cane technique. 
Now she is a nurse and graduated with a 3.93 GPA.  She understood the world
this way when she was small.
Mommies can see and Daddies can't.  Made sense to her.