[blparent] outlets

[trishs]

Hi, Eva and list.  14-month-olds probably won't understand the 
word "no" for a while.  Redirecting can become tedious and 
frustrating.  There has to be a consequence for the dangerous 
action of touching an outlet.  I might place the baby in a play 
pen with a simple phrase of explanation after each attempt at 
touching the outlet.  Discipline starts early, and you don't want 
to wait until they're 15-years-old to start.  My other concern is 
that your baby might be one of the ones who has to learn the hard 
way, and that, unfortunately is to get bit by a socket.  My point 
is a parent imposed consequence, as apposed to the inevitable 
socket consequence.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Eva Adams" <eadams15 at gmail.com
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:19:40 -0500
>Subject: [blparent] outlets

>I was just wondering if anyone had some tips on how to stop my 14 
month daughter from unpluging things from the electrical outlets.  
She first was taking her night light out of the socket, so we are 
replacing that with one of the touch lights that we can hang up 
out of her reach.  We figured out how to handle that problem, but 
today she has started unpluging the TV.  I know we could put 
furniture in front of the outlets, but that is not an option for 
every oulet we have things plugged into.  Any help would be 
apreciated.

>Eva
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