[blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 95, Issue 7

[Jennifer Jackson]

Tay, my years of parenting experience with little climbers is that the real
question you need to plan for is what the heck you are going to do when they
climb further and higher than you gave them permission for. :) On the
opposite end but just as important, plan for what to do about the busy
bodies who want to tell you your child is in danger of  instant death or
dismemberment because you are letting him climb at all. :)


Jennifer


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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 12:31 AM
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Robert,
If we have a house of our own, I could put down mulch or something similar 
to scushion the fallfrom a climbing ree, or high place they might end up. 
But they wouldn't be allowed more than, say, ten or twelve feet off the 
ground.  My husband is about isx foot. IMHO, if he can't reach straight up 
adn touch them, they're a little too high up. Or would we just be being over

the top paranoid.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Shelton" <rshelton1 at gmail.com>
To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 95, Issue 7


>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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