[blparent] blparent Digest, Vol 95, Issue 7

Sat Apr 7 15:12:26 UTC 2012

My brother Jim gets up on his roof every year and readies the swamp cooler
and at the end of the summer, unready's it.

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 12:19 AM
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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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> -----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
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> 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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