[blindkid] Child Finder-safety issues

[Carrie Gilmer]

Dear Marcia,
Are you saying your husband is blind? There is a NFB list for Blind parents.
You can go to www.nfbnet.org and subscribe. I know many sighted and blind
parents who use a harness and leash type contraption in busy public places.
I travel quite a bit and I witness this with sighted parents all the time in
airports and on the occasional museum outing. I have known blind parents to
put a bell on the child's shoes or jacket or something too. In any case
above all I have known parents to make it a strict discipline issue that
running away from Mom and Dad is a big no-no and will not be
tolerated...something I had to do with my ADD son.
Best,
 
 
Carrie Gilmer, President
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
A Division of the National Federation of the Blind
NFB National Center: 410-659-9314
Home Phone: 763-784-8590
carrie.gilmer at gmail.com
www.nfb.org/nopbc
-----Original Message-----
From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Marcia Headley
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:29 AM
To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindkid] Child Finder-safety issues

Hi! I would like to know if any of you can recommend a device that can be
used to detect when your child has gone too far away from your "field of
vision"  in a public place. This is actually for my sighted son. He is four
yrs old. I also have a 7 yr old daughter who is blind and we all go on
outtings, my two kids, husband and I, I take care of my daughter and my
husband watches my son. Last weekend we went to a kids museum and my son
"lost his daddy" (it was all the way around) and it was very scary. This is
the third incident and I am very concerned that our outtings are becoming
more of a stressful experience than fun. I don't want my 4 yr old to feel
responsible for being watching the adult in charge of his safety. I am just
very concerned.
 
Do you know of something that the child can wear and the adult, at the other
end, can wear as well so that if the child is out of range it buzzes or
something. I was thinking about a walk-talk thing but my son is very young
and I am afraid he might lose something like that. Maybe something he can
wear around the wrist or something.
 
Thanks for your help.
Marcia-Mom to Lauren, 7yrs old (bilateral microphthalmia, blind and
developmental delays) and Josh, 4yrs old (typical sighted boy)


      
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