[blparent] safety at parks and playgrounds

Fri Apr 6 00:57:38 UTC 2012

Ouch, mine wasn't just l2, but they refuse to find out how many other 
injuries I have.  I landed on my  feet, so there's no clue how bad it really 
is. The reason I fell? Nobody told the school I had seizures and the five 
person bellay team dropped me.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] safety at parks and playgrounds


> 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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