[blparent] bedtime stories

[Scott Lawlor]

Not sure I get the plastic sheets reference and how it relates to reading 
unless I didn't read the whole thread.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Cooks" <elizabethcooks at comcast.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] bedtime stories


> 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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