Colleen,

In regard to your comments about children not being prepared for life. 
Since my wife and I are blind, our children would read quite a bit when they 
were younger, especially, signs, menus and a lot of brochures when we were 
traveling on vacation or looking for a place to vacation.  etc., as a 
result, they are ace spellers and read two to three grades above their grade 
level.  They are adults now and will benefit from this.  My older son helped 
with mechanical issues around the house and I feel this probably contributed 
to him now being an aircraft mechanic, graduating with a 3.9 average from 
his aviation school.  Our other son is studying mathematics and computer 
science and has not yet decided what he wants to do after two years of 
college, not uncommon.  He is transferring from community college to a 
university for his third year and majoring in mathematics.

73

Howard #3

Howard #3


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "COLLEEN ROTH" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: Blind people and rest rooms


> Hello,
> I think that explaining things to your daughter at a later time in private 
> was probably a good thing.
> Sometimes kids just go through a kid thing. Of course that doesn't mean 
> that it's OK, it just means that we can't have a Major Hiss about it.
> Sometimes we just expect kids to act older than they are or do not 
> remember that they are just kids.
> A little responsibility is one thing, but too much is quite another. When 
> I went to get the Adoption Announcements for our daughter the lady at the 
> printer said it was so nice we were adopting a child to help us.
> I then explained to er that our daughter would be tetal care and that she 
> would always need people ! meet her Personal Care Needs.
> She was rather flabbergasted.
> I think kids can really do a lot in a family, years ago it was expected. 
> You just pitched in and the family worked together.
> Maybe a little more of this would be a good thing.
> How many kids today are prepared when they go out on their own?
> How many can cook, clean, shmp, and feel comfortable with Child Care. I am 
> not talking about Microwave Processed Foods.
> This goes for blind and sighted children and young adults.
> Colleen Roth
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sylvia Bernert <[log in to unmask]>
> ,to3 [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, May 31, 2013 11:49 am
> Subject: Re: Blind people and rest rooms
>
>>
>>
>> Well, I did repremend my daughter a good one back then and she hasn't 
>> done
>> it since.  I think part of it was her young age a the time.  I think one
>> needs to learn how to have a sense of humor about such things.  You 
>> either
>> laugh or cry.  I'd rather laugh more than anything about such things.
>>
>>
>> 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 Harvey Heagy
>> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:28 PM
> @> ,to3 [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Blind people and rest rooms
>>
>> Sylvia, I think that's the time when you need to teach children that 
>> there
>> is a time and a place for pranks, and that wasn't one of them.
>>
>> You also might try to find a Braille sign saying Men's or Women's.  If 
>> they
>> don't have that, ask.
>>
>> Once in a restaurant where I am a regular I heard a table of customers
>> discussing where the rest rooms might be.  Since they were near me, I
>> pointed and said, "Behind the brown door."  I told them later that I had 
>> no
>> strange Psychic powers, but by virtue of being a regular in that
>> establishment, I had heard staff members telling people to go behind the
>> brown door.
>> Harvey