[blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!

Wed Nov 9 21:05:44 UTC 2011

Surprises are fun.  

Sheila Leigland

-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at msn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 11:18 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!

I guess I never really minded, either.  I never thought about it one way or 
the other.  My mom designed a wooden perpetual wall calendar for me that I 
still have, now hanging in my kitchen.  My dad built it, and my brother and 
sister painted the blocks and glued on the raised numbers and letters.  One 
of the family stories of our childhood is how that calendar sat on the far 
end of the coffee table, in progress, for weeks, and I never discovered it.

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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From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 11:07 AM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
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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