[blparent] Blind walking with strollers

[Deborah Kent Stein]

Please do post your article again.  This question comes up periodically and 
there are a lot of new people on the list.  Thanks!

Debbie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Blind walking with strollers


> I've posted an article once or twice about pulling a stroller while 
> working a guide dog, but I would guess you could use a cane as well. 
> Should I post the article again?  It should be in the archives.  To tell 
> the truth, I never tested how well the technique would work because I 
> found it easier to just carry my daughter in my free arm till she got big 
> enough to walk and hold my hand.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "sharon howerton" <shrnhow at att.net>
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 8:32 PM
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Blind walking with strollers
>
>> Where are you located?
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Graham Mehl" <gmehl at verizon.net>
>> To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 8:56 PM
>> Subject: [blparent] Blind walking with strollers
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have sort of blind parenting question.
>>>
>>> There are many a times that I will want to take my daughter out in the
>>> stroller, but I am blind. How does a person blind push their little one
>>> around in a stroller if they need to have a cane in front of them while
>>> walking.
>>>
>>> I heard something about the parent straps themselves to the stroller and 
>>> the
>>> stroller is now behind them and can use your cane in front of you. There 
>>> an
>>> official name or product that is this strap. How would I go about 
>>> finding
>>> one? Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Graham
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar 
>>> paths I
>>> will guide them;  I will turn the darkness into light before them and 
>>> make
>>> the rough places smooth.  These are the things I will do; I will not 
>>> forsake
>>> them." -- Isaiah 42:16
>>>
>>>
>>>
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