[blparent] Introducing Myself and First Question
Veronica Smith
madison_tewe at spinn.net
Sat Sep 12 16:02:02 UTC 2009
It's scarey these days. But I guess it was that way when I was a kid as
well, but the news didn't advertise it like now. I could see when I was a
kid and rode my bike around the block by myself, but I would never let Gab
do that now, nope, no way! V
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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 9:52 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Introducing Myself and First Question
It's kind of sad how careful everybody has to be these days. I remember
when my brother and sister and I were kids, we'd ride our bikes all over the
neighborhood. We were just told to come home when the church bells rang.
(I had a tandem bike that my brother or sister would pilot.) Now, nobody
would dare just turn their kids loose. I'm sounding like a geezer, so I'll
shut up, but it's too bad some things have changed.
Jo Elizabeth
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify
the hunters.--African Proverb
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From: "Robert Shelton" <rshelton1 at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 8:19 PM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Introducing Myself and First Question
> Walky-talkies... I remember it well. In 1979 we lived on the outskirts
> of Knoxville Tennessee. The property next door to ours was a couple of
> hundred acres of woods. My two oldest boys, 7 and 5 at the time, loved to
> go hiking off into the woods. It was a very innocent time and a lovely
> place, but we wanted to have a way to call them home. I researched it
> carefully. We got some inexpensive walky-talkies from a toy store, and I
> even went so far as to take one into the woods all the way to the top of
> the ridge and on to the other side where there was a clearing. Walking in
> a forest requires a whole different set of cane travel and navigation
> skills, but that's another story. Anyway, everything worked fine -- great
> reception everywhere. It was fool-proof.
>
> So, came the day my boys went off by themselves on their nature hike.
> Everything was going great -- Mom: "Breaker 19 ... you boys doin' OK?"
> Boys: "Yeah Mom, we found the neatest flower..."
> Thirty minutes pass...
> Mom: "Breaker 19... what's your 20?"
>
> Dead silence. Progressively greater panic sets in. I know the area
> pretty well, so I'm just taking off to find them when I hear a rustle and
> little voices. They were fine, and hungry, but they got tired of the
> static noise from the walky-talkies and just turned them off.
>
> I think modern ones can be set up to ring when you call, so you probably
> won't have the same problem, but that's one of my favorite memories. Now
> we live in Houston -- no small kids, but here people don't let their kids
> out of their yard, I guess for good reason.
>
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