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What Are You Teaching Your Children About Disabled People?

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Submitted by: der-wordsmith
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on Sat, 05/24/2008 - 11:00pm.

In response to Purse Creation Rewards.

With the ADA and the increasing numbers of soldiers returning from war with visible and invisible handicaps and disabilities, not to mention civilians surviving illness and accident with disabling injuries, Americans are becoming more aware of the existence and needs of handicapped and disabled people. How do you teach your children about these people? What etiquette to you teach them about interacting with them?
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comment Submitted by kimbaheart on Mon, 07/14/2008 - 11:55am.
I don't think that alot of

I don't think that alot of people talk about those issues with their kids unless they have someone in their lives who brings the issue to the forefront. But at the same tim, kids learn from what is not said as well so if an issue is ignored they'll think that it is unimportant.

comment Submitted by VM1138 on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 9:10pm.
This is an interesting

This is an interesting topic. I think it's always good to examine aspects of your life that you often take for granted, such as attitudes towards groups that may lie just beneath the surface of or consciousness.

comment Submitted by RCast on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 10:47pm.
Temporarily-abled

Interesting question similar to another idea someone posted called Life with an Autistic Sister. Someone once said that people without disabilities are just "temporarily abled" since many people develop some sort of disability within their life time. It would do us all good to consider our attitudes about the disabled.