It isn't that big of a deal, in my opinion.

Parents assign children different tasks around the home all the time.  It 
might be doing the dishes, taking out the garbage, doing some meal prep if 
they're older.

In our house, instead of doing dishes, they would help us with other things 
like sorting canned goods when we got home from shopping, filling out a 
form, reading handwritten things, sorting whites from colored clothes.  All 
we did was give our two kids a reasonable equivalent number of chores which 
just happened to be different than their friends had.

I think the only affect it had on them is that they are a lot better going 
around the house when it is dark.  My new daughter-in-law is always 
commenting on how he walks around their apartment at night without lights. 
It just comes naturally to him.

Steve


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sylvia Bernert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Children!!!


>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
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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.