[blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!

[Erin Rumer]

As far as kids finding gifts in hidden places goes, it might help to  try
what my parents did which was tell me that Santa can't store everything for
all the children in the world at the North Pole and so he have parents store
some gifts ahead of time to help him out.  My sister and I came across some
hidden or should I say, some not so well hidden gifts when we were kids and
my parents would tell us this along with the disclaimer that Santa only gave
us those gifts for being good to open on Christmas day and they could go
away just as easily as they came if we tried to push the subject.  This shut
my sister and I up really quick. GRIN

Erin

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 9:33 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!

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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