[blindkid] Mommy, my baby is blind

[Brandy with Discovery Toys]

Hi, This is very very normal. I wouldn't let it alarm you. You can go to any 
hardware store and purchase a short length of PVC pipe and cut him a little 
cane. Remember it is normal for children to pretend everything that is 
around him. My little sister loved to play blind for the longest time, and 
my niece likes to play it and she will be 4 in December. Bran


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rene Harrell" <rjharrell at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:06 PM
Subject: [blindkid] Mommy, my baby is blind


> Greetings all,
>
> I hope everyone is gearing up for a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow. :-)
>
> For the past month or so, our 4.5 year old (sighted) son is starting to 
> try
> and process what blindness is and how that makes his sister different/same
> as he is. He has a few baby dolls and he has been insisting in the past
> month "Mommy, my baby is blind, like Clare" and then he likes to talk 
> about
> what that means for his baby. If I'm sitting down to read a story to him 
> and
> his baby "Mommy, my baby can't read that book. My baby is blind, he needs 
> a
> book with Braille in it so he can see it too", and so we get up and find a
> twin vision book that is acceptable to all parties.  Another big one that 
> is
> coming up is his insistence that his baby needs a cane. "Mommy, help! 
> Help!
> My baby is going to crash the wall! He doesn't have a cane!" or simply
> "Mommy, do we have a cane my baby can use? He gets scared without a cane
> 'cause he doesn't want to fall down the stairs!" (And then of course,
> because he is very much a four year old boy, it is followed with a 
> dramatic
> presentation of him flinging his baby doll down the stairs. Huh!).
>
> I got creative and fashioned a little cane out of some foam, but it's not
> all that durable and he's already gone through two of them in the past 
> week.
> I'd really like to get him a doll-sized cane for Christmas....he would
> really, really enjoy that. I figured I would check with the list and see 
> if
> anyone here has ever found a place that sells doll sized canes/adaptive
> equipment?
>
> Thanks so much, and enjoy the holiday tomorrow!
> :-)
> Rene
>
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