[blparent] bedtime stories

[Elizabeth Cooks]

My daughter does that once in a while. Thank goodness for plastic sheets.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] bedtime stories


> When I did day-care ten years ago the children were already disinterested 
> in books.  I had to make the book hop if there was a bunny or make the 
> children do some action like flap their arms like the chicken in Mister 
> Gumpy's Outing.
> My own children never sit for books.  I just read while they play.  One of 
> them comes to scratch the Braille now and then.  Of course, he gets gentle 
> reprimands because he's a potential Braille reader.
> Barbara
>
> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Amy Murillo-Hicks" <amym2 at cox.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:03 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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