Posted on 06/17/2013 5:42:11 PM PDT by grundle
She’s 14? OMG, when did she grow up so much?
Back in the day of many siblings, there wasn’t a kid in America who wasn’t initiated into snowball fights without having it start with snowballs thrown at them. Learning to throw them back was learning the game.
That’s all DJ MacWoW described, but also that his MIL had the advantage of being allowed to learn and participate regularly with the other kids despite her handicap—and how that sort of treatment paid off for her through her life.
I’m quite familiar with snowball fights. I’m also familiar with separating one child out from the group, teasing him, and pelting him with snowballs. And I’m familiar with the age old methods of teaching children to turn a bad situation to their advantage.
These parents were not asking to have their son treated different. On the contrary, they want their son to be included, not excluded. It’s really not complicated.
When you teach your children the right lessons, they tend to put all those separate lessons together and learn the big picture. You can be proud of your sons’ respect for others. You taught them that, in a million little ways. If you had told them that disabled kids should be separated from the group until they can be just like everyone else, that’s what they would have learned.
The kiddo was included.
It was only the obsessive focus of his mother who found the picture inadequate because the bleachers and wheelchair combined to have him not precisely as bunched in as the kids on the bleachers. IMO making a federal case out of it shows that reasonable efforts at inclusion will never be good enough for some families.
She’s going to be 15 in less than 2 weeks. I have no idea where the time has gone.
Why? Because it makes idiots feel better if they tear down someone else. I can understand making fun of someone’s opinion but to ridicule a disabled person is pretty disgusting.
> If I were the photographer I would have put him
> right in the middle in the front and have the other
> kids form a gap
IF you are a photographer, you would know that wouldn’t work.
1. it’s common practice to put wheelchairs on the side.
2. putting the chair in front would require the photog to reset his camera and lighting (not going to happen)
3. the “gap” would need to be about 5 people wide. this would cause more whining and crying about the pic, as the mother would complain of her child being singled out. (been there, here’s my t-shirt)
I am a photographer.
I think you replying to this says more about your agenda than anything else. But, it’s typical of you so I’m amused :)
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