[blparent] outlets

[Tammy, Paul and Colyn]

Hi,
Using Outlet covers coupled with the word no is a very effective way to 
discourage your 14 month old from playing with the outlets.  You can't give 
them a time out because they're too young to understand what it's for...IE I 
played with the outlets so I have to go in my playpen for awhile because I'm 
not supposed to do that.  The baby's just curious at this age, trying things 
to see what happens.  When he pulls the plug something happens, the 
television or the light goes off, and that's facinating to a little child 
who's just exploring his world.  I think redirecting is an appropriate way 
to discourage this behaviour since it's not actually bad behaviour just 
caused by curiosity.  If he's doing it in 1 year then I might think 
differently, but this method worked for Colyn when he was going through his 
unplugging stage.  Now he doesn't even bother with the outlets anymore.

hth

Tammy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "trishs" <slosser at metrocast.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] outlets


> 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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