[blparent] bedtime stories

[Veronica Smith]

How do you get the downloaded movie stuff?  That's sound like my kind of
movie night.
Video games and the  like are not a given here, nor is television.  Gab
always asks first before any such thing is turned on.  I don't believe I
ever told her she had to ask first, she just started one day.  Sometimes I
like it and sometimes I think it weird.  I don't remember asking if I could
watch TV as a kid, I just turned it on.  Of course, when I was a kid the
by-ways weren't filled with so much smut. V

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Amy Murillo-Hicks
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:03 PM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blparent] bedtime stories

Hi there,

 

With my children being a little older, 10 and 12, I have really noticed how
I just can't get them to read at all on their own without a book report or
extreme bribes or threats.

 

I have discussed this with my kid's friend's parents, and we seem to be
finding that this is an epidemic and they are so in to video games, or
texting, or just being on the computer.

 

One of the things that I have started is and audio described movie night
where we listen to a downloaded movie with just the sound track.  

 

My kids are both sighted, and we have found that this is a method for
helping them to use their imagination, and have still some kind of
multi-media experience.  

 

I used many of the resources mentioned in this thread when they were little,
and I found that using the twin vision books are really important:
especially the ones where the line of Braille is comparable to the line of
print for helping to teach my kids to read along.

 

I'm not sure that I have any answers, just some more thoughts to add to the
mix.

 

Amy M-H   

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