[blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 95, Issue 7

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

My grandma had an awesome climbing tree in her yard.  We kids used to climb 
up the tre and get on the roof of the house.  People gave my parents a hard 
time for letting me go up there with the others, but my parents just warned 
me once to be aware of the edge, and left me to my own devices.  I was 
always glad they weren't overprotective.

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: "Brandy W" <ballstobooks at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 9:18 PM
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> I have some real good climbing trees in my back yard, and all the kids 
> climb
> them and that is just fine. One of the kids I often watch is 9, and he can
> climb anything. We about had a hardatach when he climbed about 40 feet in
> the air in a pear tree and was throwing pears down into buckets we were
> holding. His dad was there for this, but I still had that not in my tummy. 
> O
> that line between safe and letting kids be kids and learn from their 
> world.
>
> Bran
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>
> "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out 
> is
> a spark."
> - Victor Hugo
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Robert Shelton
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 11:11 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 95, Issue 7
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> I have a story for you.  When I was 3, about 60 years ago, we moved into
> this house with a great big tree in the back yard.  It had this nice fork
> maybe 18 inches off the ground -- yeah, it was a climbin' tree.  Over the
> next year or so, I really worked at getting a start at climbing that tree.
> So, now, I'm four and a half, and I figure out how to get a leg up, so to
> speak, and I start exploring that tree, vertically.  To make matters a lot
> worse for my parents, who had already lost my older brother to congenatle
> heart problems, I was an early riser -- I mean really early.  One of my
> earliest memories is looking down from that tree (I could see back then) 
> at
> my dad's pink head (close cropped, he was a redhead).  I was well above 
> the
> roof line of this little house, up in that tree like a little bird 
> watching
> the sunrise -- I'd just gotten up and gone to the back yard while my folks
> were asleep.
>
> So, what did my folks do?  We had all kinds of cardboard from moving 
> boxes.
> My dad, bless his heart, cushioned the area under the tree with those 
> boxes.
> He was a wise man who understood, even after losing his first born son at
> the age of 3, that he could not shield me from all possible harm.  He was
> raising a boy, not an African Violet.  He mitigated deadly permanent
> consequences, and let me explore, take my chances.  That is a great gift 
> for
> which I will always be grateful.
>
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