[blparent] Keeping young children safe as parents with a visual impairment

[Veronica Smith]

We did all of the above, except I didn't have a baby gate, but I did put the
play pen infront of the kitchen door while I was cooking, but that was the
only time.  I also made sure my house was baby safe with outlet covers and
things that kept the cabinets closed in the bathroom.  But you know what,
Gab could open them without problem, but my elderly mother could not.  Goes
to show.
My cousin put fancy locks up high so the kids couldn't get out but you know
as that goes,  as soon as her kids figured out they could move the chair,
they opened it right away.
Anyway the point is we can only try to prevent as any one does, but kids are
kids and as long as we keep on top of things, we are doing the right thing.

Another thing we did at my mother's for safety reasons, we had an alarm put
in and every time anyone opened a door, the alarm would chime.  We did this
to make my mother feel better after my dad passed away.  But we loved it
when the grandbabies came around, if any of them tried to escape, the
alarmed chimed loudly. v

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Sheila Leigland
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 8:52 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Keeping young children safe as parents with a visual
impairment

I don't know if we did anything differently than sighted parents should have
been doing accept understand that vision was not an option to be used. We
had baby gates. We had a baby monitor, when we built a deck it was railed
and had a gate on it. We taught him to come when he was called and that lule
was consedered unbreakable. We had a fenced yard in fact it was six feet
high and then people complained that it looked like a prison. We had a baby
gate separating the kitchen and the living room until our son discovered at
the ripe old age of 2 how to unlock it. Then we were told that he watched us
do it surprise surprise he could see. We tried to keep him from climbing oh
welll that only lasted so long. We held hands when we crossed the street.
There is no way to plan for everything and sighted people can't do it eiter.
And if they claim that they do they are deceiving themselves as well as
others.

Sheila Leiglan	d

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