[blparent] Long Hair

Sat Nov 22 04:54:12 UTC 2008

We like the curls that flow down Gabriella's back.  So out with the tangles 
went the curls as well.  We didn't like that.  I guess we are stuck between 
a rock and a hard place. V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allie" <alliemartins at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Long Hair

> Curls are more likely to get tangled, though.  Why wouldn't
> anyone like that?
>
> --Allie
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>Date sent: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:39:30 -0700
>>Subject: Re: [blparent] Long Hair
>
>>I bought a shampoo called Soothers and it took every tangle out,
> of course
>>it took every curl out as well and no one liked it.  V
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Allie" <alliemartins at gmail.com
>>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:50 AM
>>Subject: Re: [blparent] Long Hair
>
>
>>> Hi V, I find that the two in one shampoo and conditioner doesn't
> work as
>>> effectively in my hair,
>>> either, and I don't have curly hair, just lots of it.
>
>>> -- Allie
>
>>> A smile costs nothing but gives much.  It enriches those who
> receive
>>> without making poorer those who
>>> give.  It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes
> lasts
>>> forever.  None is so rich or
>>> mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor
> that he
>>> cannot be made rich by it.
>>> Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for
> it is
>>> something that is of no value
>>> to anyone until it is given away.  Some people are too tired to
> give you a
>>> smile.  Give them one of
>>> yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to
> give.
>>> -- Author Unknown
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:32 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Long Hair
>
>
>>> The shampoos with lavender don't work on her curly hair.  But I
> will try
>>> not
>>> rinsing the conditioner completely out.  Also the shampoos with
>>> conditioner
>>> already built in don't work either.  I'd just better save my
> pennies so I
>>> can go get another bottle of lavender oil.  smile.  We did go
> get 3 inches
>>> cut off at the end of the summer.  I thought that would work.
> Wrong again.
>>> V
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com
>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:47 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Long Hair
>
>
>>>> What about the shampoos and conditioners that have lavender in
> them?  I
>>>> think it's Suave that makes a lavender and lilac shampoo and
> conditioner.
>>>> A friend in college also told me not to rinse the conditioner
> completely
>>>> out--that's why you don't put it in the top part of the hair.
> Split ends
>>>> also make it impossible to get through.
>>>> Barbara
>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:19 PM
>>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Long Hair
>
>>>>> A word to the wise.  Lavender oil is wonderful for relaxing
> tangles.
>>>>> You
>>>>> can just put a drop or 2 into the basin, wet the brush with it
> and
>>>>> slowly
>>>>> pull it through your hair.  Or you can spray your hair with it
> first,
>>>>> then
>>>>> brush it out.  I haven't been doing that lately, since we ran
> out.  It's
>>>>> not cheap.  V
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Allie" <alliemartins at gmail.com
>>>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>>> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 2:50 PM
>>>>> Subject: [blparent] Long Hair
>
>
>>>>>> Having long hair is a pain in the derriere sometimes.  One day I
>>>>>> went into the shower with a plastic bag over my head, so my hair
>>>>>> wouldn't get wet.  It was in the morning when I was pressed for
>>>>>> time and needed to take a quick shower.  My hair is the thing
>>>>>> that takes me the longest to wash.  Grrr.  Don't even get me
>>>>>> started on brushing it ...  Sigh.
>>>>>> Yet, I want Gabbie to have nice long hair, too.  How is that
>>>>>> different? LOL.
>
>>>>>> --Allie
>
>
>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>>>>>>>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>>>>>Date sent: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:57:25 -0700
>>>>>>>Subject: Re: [blparent] not so nice places
>
>>>>>>>Sometimes my daughter doesn't like her hair washed.  Gab has
>>>>>> really long
>>>>>>>hair, almost down to her waist and i think she doesn't really
>>>>>> want me to
>>>>>>>brush the tangles out.  V
>>>>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com
>>>>>>>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>>>>>Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 9:43 PM
>>>>>>>Subject: Re: [blparent] not so nice places
>
>
>>>>>>>> We have a bit of video from the first bath.  They both screamed
>>>>>> at the top
>>>>>>>> of their lungs.  When we got home we practically had to bathe
>>>>>> them in cold
>>>>>>>> water--or at least room temperature--in order for them to
>>>>>> tolerate it.  It
>>>>>>>> took months for them and then Jesse had a setback because Paull
>>>>>> tried to
>>>>>>>> dunk him.  Now, when they're feeling good and happy, they love
>>>>>> baths.
>>>>>>>> Although they still don't care to get their hair washed.
>>>>>>>> Barbara
>
>>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>>>>>>>> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 3:55 PM
>>>>>>>> To: "blind parents" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>>>>>> Subject: [blparent] not so nice places
>
>>>>>>>>> It is hard to believe what kids go through in orphanages.  My
>>>>>> cousin
>>>>>>>>> adopted a toddler from Romania and she said the babies were kept
>>>>>> 3 to a
>>>>>>>>> crib.  She said that when it was bath time, the workers would
>>>>>> take the
>>>>>>>>> clothes off these kids and spray them with a garden hose.
>>>>>>>>> When Claire came to live here, she was absolutely terrified of
>>>>>> water.  my
>>>>>>>>> cousin said she would scream anytime the water was even turned
>>>>>> on in the
>>>>>>>>> house.  so they started therapy.  First a little cup was
>>>>>> introduced to
>>>>>>>>> Claire, 18 months at the time.  then when that was not a threat,
>>>>>> a cup,
>>>>>>>>> then a bowl, then a bigger one, then a bucket.  Now claire is 13
>>>>>> and on
>>>>>>>>> the swimming team at her school.
>>>>>>>>> I thank God everyday that my daughter is the way she is and not
>>>>>> afraid of
>>>>>>>>> anything except the dark and a biting puppy.  v
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