[blindkid] [blkid] Packing Light

[Carol Castellano]

Guess you didn't have to work out in the gym!
Carol

At 09:04 PM 1/25/2009, you wrote:
>Adendum:
>
>We weighed briefcase and typewriter once: briefcase weighed 22 
>pounds loaded and the typewriter weighed 8 pounds. Let's put it this 
>way: no one offered to carry my stuff. (grin)
>
>Mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com>
>To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
>Date: Sunday, Jan 25, 2009 17:22:26
>Subject: Re: [blkid] [blkid] Packing Light
>
> >
> >
> > Back in the early 1960's in public junior high and high school in 
> a city with no public school program for the blind, I kept my 
> Perkins  brailler and disc talking book machine (one needed it to 
> play RFB&D books on flexible disks)  in my locker and carried a 
> large briefcase and portable manual typewriter with me to each 
> class all day every day. Said briefcase had, of course, a slate and 
> stylus in one of its compartments.
> >
> > Mike Freeman
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Carrie Gilmer" <carrie.gilmer at gmail.com>
> > To: "'Ationfbnet Blind Kid Mailing List, \(for parents of blind 
> chn\]was <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
> > Date: Sunday, Jan 25, 2009 12:36:42
> > Subject: [blkid] Packing Light
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I also thought it was brave of Kim to post. It shouldn't have 
> to be that we
> > > need to be brave to post a different experience or opinion. And 
> we all need
> > > to give each other room to proceed as we determine is best as parents and
> > > learn and grow and process.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > And Carol I am glad you also mentioned looking for ways to downsize.
> > >
> > > I even had this with my sighed daughter this year, she felt she needed to
> > > carry everything-I mean everything-just to be sure she had it. 
> I recall one
> > > woman we had in training at the center once she carried a full 
> backpack AND
> > > a rolling suitcase wherever she went (I mean she took the scanner and
> > > everything!) and she was one of the slowest least organized people I had
> > > seen go through training. Jordan sometimes has this tendency 
> too- it is an
> > > organizational and minimalist skill for some and for some a 
> natural. Maya's
> > > comment yesterday-"some of the kids, mom, only carry around a 
> pencil! How do
> > > they do it?", Well I think they don't but as is usual a happy medium is
> > > best. I do recommend taking periodic reviews of consolidation and
> > > determining what is needed everyday or as Carol suggested using one daily
> > > folder or a couple and keeping large binders at home. Jordan usually only
> > > takes his BrailleNote, his volume he needed for homework and tries to get
> > > ahead days when the class will be on computer or have a lab, so 
> he does not
> > > carry his laptop everyday. He does however always carry a slate 
> and stylus
> > > and note cards. Lately for a few weeks he has been in a take it 
> all in case
> > > I need it some type of personal exploration (which included the KNFB
> > > reader), but he still gets to class on time etc. He has always had two
> > > instruments since high school (maybe even sometime in middle school-can't
> > > recall exactly), one in the band room and one at home since he plays a
> > > larger one (trombone)-but sometimes he has to take his instrument too for
> > > one reason or another. He has monocular and prescription 
> magnifying glasses
> > > in a waist pouch, where he also carries his slate and notecards.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
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