[blparent] Creativity and Imaginary Friends
Barbara Hammel
poetlori8 at msn.com
Mon Sep 20 16:25:58 UTC 2010
Sounds to me like she's just being a typical child who has an imagination.
Good for her!
Barbara
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Too often, I fear,
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From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 11:40 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blparent] Creativity and Imaginary Friends
> Hi. I was wondering when you all first noticed imagination in your kids.
> Sarah is just now two and a half, and she's really amazed me lately with
> some of the stuff she's come up with.
>
> First it was Maggie. A couple of months ago, Sarah saw her reflection in
> a computer monitor on my desk, and even though she knows herself by sight
> in a mirror, that reflection became Maggie. Sarah won't mention Maggie
> all the time, but now and then, she'll greet her on the way past the desk.
>
> Then, in the last couple of weeks, Sarah started talking about a pink cake
> on the wall of a garage near our condo. She came up with a whole story
> about how somebody was carrying a pink cake and crashed it into the wall.
> I asked a sighted friend if she saw anything unusual on that wall, and she
> said there was a big splotch of pink paint, probably graffiti. She said
> it was "little girl frosting" pink. So that's how the pink cake came to
> be.
>
> Last week, Sarah and I were outside, and she said there were baby animals
> under the big pine tree in the front yard. She led me by the hand to
> investigate, and the baby animals--horses, lions, birds, monkeys--turned
> out to be pine cones. I tried to explain to her what the pine cones
> really were, but to her, they were baby animals. So she decided we
> couldn't leave the baby animals all alone, and she wanted to take them to
> see another imaginary character--a yellow farmer--which it turns out is
> the fire plug at the edge of our parking lot. I don't know what the
> neighbors must have thought of the two of us walking back and forth, back
> and forth, carrying pine cones from the tree to the fire plug--Sarah could
> only hold a few animals at a time, and she wasn't interested in my help.
> She arranged the animals around the fire plug farmer and wasn't satisfied
> till she'd gotten all of them into his care.
>
> I've really had fun watching Sarah's imagination blossom, so I'm wondering
> if all of these elaborate stories and characters are something common to
> most children, or if this is anything I need to be concerned about.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
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