[blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!

Wed Nov 9 20:59:38 UTC 2011

So you can lie to your husband but not a 2 year old child? That does not
make sense. Again to each their own, I'm not judging you.
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:36:17 -0700
"Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't believe in telling my child an untruth no matter what age they are
> because I never want Dawson to distrust me.  If he ever catches me doing
> something that I think I'm getting away with because of his age or
> awareness, then I'll calming tell him what I'm doing and acknowledge his
> alertness to the subject.
> 
> Erin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 1:26 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!
> 
> Some of this might be, Aron, that your son is still a young toddler. It's
> amazing what you can pull over on them given their short memories and
> inability to understand language.
> We had a phase where our daughter didn't want to get in the car. We got
> around this by saying "If you get in the car, we'll go see Grandma".
> This worked until she was about three, she understood "car and Grandma" and
> that got her excited enough to get ready and strapped in. Then she'd forget
> about what we told her.
> Then when she was about three, I used the "We're going to grandma's" line
> and she looked at me and said very calmly "No we're not"
> 
> I think it's very easy to say what we'd do in a given situation, a situation
> we are not actually faced with. Then you add the people and the feelings and
> the logestics, mix them together and find that you behave very differently.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:52 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!
> 
> My parents never did that to me--of course, they had plenty of time without
> me since I attended the residential school.
> I have blind kids who are also autistic and I'd never dream of buying their
> gifts with them present.
> Barbara
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erin Rumer
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:07 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!
> 
> My parents got my gifts with me there at the store as well and I've got to
> say I don't blame them.  It's enough work to try and shop and organize
> holiday details so why not cut corners where you can.  Heck, I'd do it if my
> kid was blind! SMILING  My mom would even have me wrap some of my gifts if
> they were in unidentifiable boxes which killed me and made me laugh all at
> the same time.  With Dawson I'm going to take a trick from my mother-in-law
> and wrap the gifts inside other things that are totally different shapes
> from the actual gifts.  For example, taking a old blanket that's not being
> used and wrapping something smaller inside of that or hiding a gift inside a
> big ball of newspaper.  It doesn't have to be pretty, just has to do the
> trick.
> 
> Erin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Lisamaria Martinez
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:30 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!
> 
> 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,
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