Author and Speaker
Margaret Germain is an engaging speaker for your organization’s meetings. Her message includes resilience, overcoming adversity, and change of perspective. She has many lifetime stories both from her Seeing Eye Child book, and additional sources to motivate and inspire others with their life challenges. She has been a lifelong champion of people with disabilities and children in special ed programs. She is certified in special education, taught in a county wide special ed school for eight years, and continues to help in special ed classes as a substitute and a volunteer. Her life has had many struggles, including two divorces and twelve miscarriages. She is currently working on a second book that focuses on how she healed her knee arthritis, lost 100 pounds, and climbed a mountain.
Margaret will be presenting her book at the UU church of Venice author event on Saturday, Feb 28 at 2 pm. There will be an interactive display of interesting items related to her dad’s blindness, including a Braille book, a stylus and slate, and even her dad’s Braille watch. Come and talk to Margaret about how resilience and change of perspective can change your life.
Margaret Germain, the seeing eye child, grew up with the loving care of her blind father. She is a professional pianist, harpist and special education teacher who has been writing stories, songs and poetry since childhood. She has a B.Mus.Ed from Northwestern University and special education certification through the University of South Florida. She is active as a performer, therapeutic musician, public speaker, and tutor. She has finally found the love of her life, married him, and lives in Florida with their dog, Sally.
This is the touching memoir of the daughter of a blind man and the profound influence his being blind had on her life. It is full of amusing and emotional stories of a girl growing up in the fifties and sixties with her dad who couldn’t see and her Australian mother. She was his seeing eye child, and he was her hero. But, there are struggles in her relationship with her parents, leading to a heartbreaking estrangement. Follow Margaret as she is raised by two exceptional parents and is inspired to overcome the many challenges of her life.
I enjoyed reading your book. I really could not put it down. -K.H.
This is amazing writing! It’s marvelous. I’m so pleased to read something so heartfelt.
-E.P.
I thoroughly enjoyed your book filled with insights, growth and love.
-M.R.
Father-daughter relationships are special. This book gave me insight into a very different world - well written and full of love.
-E.B.
It’s an amazing book!! -D.B.
This is the touching memoir of the daughter of a blind man and the profound influence his being blind had on her life. It is full of amusing and emotional stories of a girl growing up in the fifties and sixties with her dad who couldn’t see and her Australian mother. She was his seeing eye child, and he was her hero. But, there are struggles in her relationship with her parents, leading to a heartbreaking estrangement. Follow Margaret as she is raised by two exceptional parents and is inspired to overcome the many challenges of her life.
I enjoyed reading your book. I really could not put it down. -K.H.
This is amazing writing! It’s marvelous. I’m so pleased to read something so heartfelt.
-E.P.
I thoroughly enjoyed your book filled with insights, growth and love.
-M.R.
Father-daughter relationships are special. This book gave me insight into a very different world - well written and full of love.
-E.B.
It’s an amazing book!! -D.B.
5.0 out of 5 stars
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Honest and Heartfelt Memoir
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2025
Format: Kindle
Seeing Eye Child by Margaret Germain is an honest and heartfelt memoir. Germain shares her life with openness, from growing up with a blind father, to facing hardships, to ultimately finding happiness in her later years. Her story is one of resilience and persistence through challenges. Readers who enjoy personal life stories and true accounts of overcoming obstacles will appreciate the straightforward way she tells her journey. This book gives a genuine window into a woman’s strength and her search for lasting love and fulfillment.
Verified Purchase
Honest and Heartfelt Memoir
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2025
Format: Kindle
Seeing Eye Child by Margaret Germain is an honest and heartfelt memoir. Germain shares her life with openness, from growing up with a blind father, to facing hardships, to ultimately finding happiness in her later years. Her story is one of resilience and persistence through challenges. Readers who enjoy personal life stories and true accounts of overcoming obstacles will appreciate the straightforward way she tells her journey. This book gives a genuine window into a woman’s strength and her search for lasting love and fulfillment.
Poem about my dad.
My Dad Who Couldn't See
By Margaret E Germain. ©️10/25/16-2026
He was always there when I needed him-
My dad who couldn't see.
I'd run to him when he came home from work
His big arms reached out to me.
When I was little I was his guide,
I wore a little harness with a leash .
Yes, I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
but really, we were quite a piece.
I was daddy’s little girl
He was my hero and my friend
Defender when I needed him
I loved him till the end
One day we walked down to the big town square
Past the policeman in the center
It was Dad and me stopping traffic all around
The blind man led by his tiny daughter.
We'd sit together with our books, at night,
his in Braille, mine in print.
Reading our stories together was such fun,
sometimes he'd give me a hint.
I learned to dance standing up on his big shoes,
around the kitchen floor.
It's been hard to find someone with shoes like those;
someone that I would adore.
Little girls grow up to be strong women
We act and think for ourselves
This daddy's girl thought an awful lot
I just wanted to be my own true self.
I’d happily worn a harness to lead
But outgrew that tiny restriction.
I took it off and was finally freed
But found that to be a source of friction.
Who are we that we can love too much and try to control another?
When love holds us back and won't let us breathe
Then love can start to smother.
Don't hold me too close or put me on a leash
I won't stay there long, you'll see.
My dad loved me so much, I know that, it's true.
But love me and let me be -- me.
My Dad Who Couldn't See
By Margaret E Germain. ©️10/25/16-2026
He was always there when I needed him-
My dad who couldn't see.
I'd run to him when he came home from work
His big arms reached out to me.
When I was little I was his guide,
I wore a little harness with a leash .
Yes, I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
but really, we were quite a piece.
I was daddy’s little girl
He was my hero and my friend
Defender when I needed him
I loved him till the end
One day we walked down to the big town square
Past the policeman in the center
It was Dad and me stopping traffic all around
The blind man led by his tiny daughter.
We'd sit together with our books, at night,
his in Braille, mine in print.
Reading our stories together was such fun,
sometimes he'd give me a hint.
I learned to dance standing up on his big shoes,
around the kitchen floor.
It's been hard to find someone with shoes like those;
someone that I would adore.
Little girls grow up to be strong women
We act and think for ourselves
This daddy's girl thought an awful lot
I just wanted to be my own true self.
I’d happily worn a harness to lead
But outgrew that tiny restriction.
I took it off and was finally freed
But found that to be a source of friction.
Who are we that we can love too much and try to control another?
When love holds us back and won't let us breathe
Then love can start to smother.
Don't hold me too close or put me on a leash
I won't stay there long, you'll see.
My dad loved me so much, I know that, it's true.
But love me and let me be -- me.
