[blparent] safety at parks and playgrounds

Erin Rumer erinrumer at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 22:06:43 UTC 2012 

OOOOOOO, your injury sounds horrible as well.  I was probably about 8 feet
in the air when the chain broke on the swing.

Erin

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Tay Laurie
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:21 AM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] safety at parks and playgrounds

Eight bones in your back? Ow ow ow ow ow ow! How high was that off the
ground? When I hit the ground from my swing fall, I only skidded about ten
or so feet and permanently messed up the skin on my palms. Now, when I took
a twenty foot fall off of a rock wall, that was when I busted l2 and now
because of broken hardware have a partial SCI.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] inflatable tub bumpers but now changing subject
topark safety


> Okay, this is an interesting topic but we need to change the subject 
> line because we've gotten far away from talking about tub bumpers.
>
> On the topic of safety at parks and such though there is a huge 
> difference between being an attentive and conscious parent and being a 
> helicopter parent.  It is one thing to do all we can as parents to 
> keep our children safe, be involved in what they're doing and try and 
> avoid unnecessary injury, and it's another thing to hover over them at 
> all moments and constantly intercede with each and everything they do.  
> Getting hurt is definitely part of being a kid and learning but it's a 
> balancing act of helping them learn and keeping them truly safe.  We 
> aren't going to let our toddler touch the stove to learn about hot 
> things but touching our hot coffee cup will teach them about hot 
> things without actually hurting them.
> At parks it is very important to inspect the equipment before our kids 
> or we ourselves get on it because some parks maintain their equipment 
> better than others.  There a lot more injuries that happen every year 
> than you ever hear about and I'm an example of that.  I have always 
> loved parks and all the fun they provide but back in 2003 I was 
> swinging with my husband at a park on a beautiful spring day and one 
> of the chains of my swing was rusted through near the top and it 
> broke.  I fell onto the solid ground because the park didn't extend 
> the sand far enough and I broke eight bones in my back, rotated my 
> right hip and tore a ton of muscle in my right shoulder.  It's an 
> absolute miracle I didn't get a spinal cord injury.  My physical 
> therapist in the hospital told me that I was one out of three adult 
> patients in the hospital at that time he was treating for swing 
> related injuries.  Pretty stunning huh!!  We didn't want to sue at all 
> and I don't recommend for anyone to go through a suit unless they 
> truly have to but in this case the park district wouldn't take care of 
> my medical bills which is all I was asking for and the worst thing is 
> they weren't willing to take care of the equipment at the park.  Three 
> years later we won a suit against the park district and the equipment 
> was replaced and my bills were paid.  Our lawyer told us that a lot of 
> times these big dogs don't do anything until an actual suit is made 
> which is nuts but sometimes what has to happen.  It's such a waste of 
> time, money and energy for everyone involved.  Thank God today I just 
> deal with some chronic pane but nothing else from that horrible 
> accident.  I was worried that getting pregnant was going to make my 
> chronic pane much worse but praise the Lord I had a pretty pane free 
> pregnancy.
>
> Erin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> On Behalf Of Tay Laurie
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:14 AM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] inflatable tub bumpers
>
> That's another thing, the winning/losing. They don't want the kids to 
> experience losing. They don't want to trample on their self-esteem. 
> Pardon me, but I played plenty of win-lose games, still do, actually, 
> and it doesn't crush me if I lose. I don't think it crushes very many, 
> if any, kids if they win or lose, once they understand it's not the 
> end of the world.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peggy" <pshald at neb.rr.com>
> To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 6:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] inflatable tub bumpers
>
>
>> Oh I think a lot of parents are over protective and also sue happy, 
>> as mentioned on this list.  A lot of the playground equipment is 
>> being taken down because it's a safety hazzard.  Games can't be 
>> played because of safety reasons or because someone wins or loses.  
>> We have a trampoline in our backyard and a couple summers ago our 
>> little neighbor boy fell off and broke his arm and I thought surely 
>> she'll sue but she didn't, she believes like I do, accidents happen 
>> and kids will get hurt.  They want them to have the physical 
>> activities because they're overweight but so many things are taken 
>> away, what are they
> supposed to do?
>>
>> When Dylan started taking baths on his own, until he could sit up I 
>> took a bath with him.  I bought a seat that has suction cups and it's 
>> round that sits in the bottom of the tub, bath ring, I think they're 
>> called, he liked that and it worked well.  Before that I always 
>> bathed with my kids because once when my daughter was tiny she turned 
>> her head so quick when I went to get shampoo or something and almost 
>> drowned and that scared me so bad because they're so quick, I always 
>> bathed with them until they were old enough to sit up.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kate McEachern
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 9:26 PM
>> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] inflatable tub bumpers
>>
>> Its a millyen daller indestry to keep kids safe.  And the more 
>> products to keep kids safe, the more activities of childhood are lost.
>> I've heard of parks not alowing slides, kids getting time out for 
>> running in a tot lot, and Ash once got sent home with a note because 
>> when she was saposed to stand still she was bouncing on her heals and 
>> according to the school this was a hazerd to all.  There's a fine 
>> line between what keeps kids safe and hellacopter parenting.  But I 
>> have seen some parents starting to relax if even just a bit.  Not 
>> saying kids shouldn't be wotched its just I know parents that I think 
>> forgot how to blink with their levels of vidgulence.
>>
>> Kate
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
>> To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 10:08 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] inflatable tub bumpers
>>
>>
>>> If a child is going to hit his head, I don't think it would be on 
>>> the inside of the tub.  Imagining the way a fall would go, the head 
>>> would be more likely to hit a flat or protruding surface, like the 
>>> flat edge of the tub, or the wall, or the faucet.  So I'd question 
>>> whether the bumpers would be necessary, especially since you 
>>> wouldn't want to leave a toddler in the tub for even a few seconds 
>>> by himself.  If the bumpers make you feel safer to have, then by all
means, get them.
>>> But I would guess that a bath mat or a towel to prevent falls would 
>>> do just as well.  Sometimes I think the baby industry really tries 
>>> to see how much money they can get new parents to spend.
>>>
>>> On a similar subject, I got one of those inflatable faucet covers at 
>>> my baby shower from the church, and I found the silly thing 
>>> downright useless. There was no way to secure it to the faucet, so 
>>> it was always falling off, or getting pulled off, and it spent more 
>>> time in the water than it ever did covering the spout.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 8:00 PM
>>> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] inflatable tub bumpers
>>>
>>>> I believe the bumpers go all the way around the three sides, not 
>>>> including the faucet side, so it wouldn't be easy for a toddler to 
>>>> remove in the way you're talking.  After the toddler years one 
>>>> wouldn't need this type of thing in the tub and that's when I could 
>>>> see older kids getting creative with the bumpers. GRIN
>>>>
>>>> Erin
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>>> [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>>> On
>>>> Behalf Of Kate McEachern
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 6:21 PM
>>>> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] inflatable tub bumpers
>>>>
>>>> This just sounds like a bad idea. I have images of it being used as 
>>>> a flote.
>>>>
>>>> Kate
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "NFB blind parent listserv" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 7:42 PM
>>>> Subject: [blparent] inflatable tub bumpers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hello list,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am considering getting those inflatable bumpers for the regular 
>>>>> tub that suction cup to the sides.  They come in Sesame Street and 
>>>>> other fun designs.
>>>>> My only worry is that they might not stick like they should but 
>>>>> I'd love to put something on the tub walls to make the big tub a 
>>>>> safer place for our
>>>>> 17
>>>>> month old.  Have any of you used this product?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Erin
>>>>>
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