[blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!

[Lisamaria Martinez]

You know, my parents wrapped my gifts in front of me too. In fact,
they'd shop for them in front of me. I thought it was rude and totally
unfair to do that just because I couldn't see.

LM

On 11/9/11, Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:
> Hi.  For any of you moms who have little ones starting to run around and get
> into things, I thought I'd warn you about something I just learned the hard
> way.  *Smile.*  They'll see everything, especially what you don't want them
> to, and they'll remember.  They're smarter than we give them credit for.
>
> I bought Sarah the Little People school bus because she's really into buses
> and planes and the like right now.  The package came from Amazon while she
> was at preschool about a month ago, and I threw the boxes in the recycling
> bin and hid the toy at the top of my closet, thinking I was pretty slick.
> Well, she saw part of a picture on one box sticking out of the bin.  She
> asked about it, and I glossed over it.  We moved on, and I thought she'd
> forgotten about the bus.
>
> So this morning, I went to get a shirt from the closet, and Sarah wandered
> in behind me.  All at once, she started jumping up and down, saying, "I see
> it!  Up there!  The bus toy really is here!  I want that bus toy!"
>
> I guess I didn't hide it well enough.  She saw the box peeking out from
> under a blanket on a high shelf and remembered the picture from the
> recycling bin.  She had a bit of a meltdown because she knew the toy was
> there, but I wouldn't get it off the shelf for her.  I couldn't really
> explain why, either.  Now Santa Claus can't bring that toy to her, either,
> because it'll blow his cover.  I'll have to give it to her from Mom and Dad,
> or maybe from her brother Stephen.  Anyway, my point is, when I was a kid,
> my family could (and did) wrap my presents right in front of me.  But
> obviously, blind parents of sighted kids have to be very careful about these
> things.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of
> the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of
> these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
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