[blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!

Wed Nov 9 23:41:29 UTC 2011

I agree that lieing to our children is not good but there are times that it 
is hard to avoid lieing to them.  When it came to Christmas, my son was very 
picky so I would take one or both of my parents shopping and we would tag 
team.  We would let him pick out what he liked.  When he was distracted the 
other one would take the items and go pay for it and place them in to the 
trunk of the car.  Once he was asleep I would take the presents out and hide 
them.

Amanda
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From: "Pipi" <blahblahblah0822 at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 1:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!

> Jo Elizabeth,
> Is there another small child in the family or friends that you could say 
> the bus is for? As I sit here and write this, I'm torn on it. I've 
> purchased gifts for Savannah in front of her and tell her that they are 
> for another child. She is younger than Sarah though.  On one hand, it's 
> flat out lying to my daughter. On the other hand I'm a single mom with a 
> very small support system living in hickville 35 miles away from shopping 
> centers. I know lying is wrong. Savannah hasn't remembered the lie. She's 
> only been excited that oh look that toy has appeared again and this time 
> it's mine.
> I don't know. It all depends on your own morality I guess. And honestly 
> I'm questioning my own as I actually write out what I do.
> And on the subject of shopping in front of blind children, my sister will 
> still shop for my gifts in front of me. It doesn't bother me. Hell she has 
> to get them at some time and why spend the extra time and gas money doing 
> so. If I wanted to snoop, I could, but that would ruin the fun.
> Pipi
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 1:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!
>
>
>> Yeah, we're having an issue because Sarah knows about that stupid bus, 
>> and now she wants it, and we've had a really crabby day.
>>
>> 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 12:24 PM
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!
>>
>>> 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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