[blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 95, Issue 7

[Veronica Smith]

I used to climb trees as a kid, but since I could see very well, never went
to high.  Gab is not much for climbing or so I thought, a couple of weeks
ago, for some strange reason, she tossed her jump rope over the lower branch
of our tree and used it to put her foot in and climb up.  Then she grins,
she went up one more branch.  I heard the dog barking so came out and there
she was in the tree.  "mommy, can you help me down?" Ug!
I just told her to come down the same way she went up.  She did and now
says, "that was fun... not.

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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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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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 11:11 PM
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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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