[blparent] Going on a Shoe Hunt

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Thanks.  We have a routine with Sarah's coat, which is still a bit of a 
challenge to enforce, but we'll have to add shoes to the list.  Sarah 
usually goes barefoot by choice in the house, or wears her slippers.  But I 
know what you mean about the trail of socks.  I'm always picking up PJ's, 
too, and other clothes.  It's hard to enforce the rules of picking up with 
Sarah because Gerald doesn't enforce the same rules with my stepson, but I'm 
slowly working on him, too.

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: "Melissa Ann Riccobono" <melissa at riccobono.us>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:34 AM
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Going on a Shoe Hunt

> We usually have Austin take his shoes off as soon as he gets in the house.
> He has a place for them near the front door, and they are always
> there--unless his sister has gotten a hold of them and moved them, which
> fortunately does not happen often--when he needs them again.  I don't know
> exactly when this habit started, but it has been so helpful!  The same 
> goes
> with his coat and backpack.  He used to take them off and throw them on 
> the
> floor somewhere, but now he has a routine when he comes in and it really
> seems to help us with the morning scramble.  Austin doesn't mind walking
> around the house in his socks...  Actually, lately he's taken to taking 
> them
> off and leaving them whereever they land, which is driving me crazy.  That
> will certainly have to be the next thing we work on.  He also has slippers
> he likes to wear in the house when his feet are cold, or just because he
> likes his slippers.
> I hope this helps; there is nothing worse than going on a shoe hunt--or 
> hunt
> for anything actually--when you are in a hurry and have to be somewhere at 
> a
> certain time.
> Melissa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 10:36 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] Going on a Shoe Hunt
>
> That's right, a shoe hunt.  An endless one.  Sarah has gotten to where
> she'll just take off her shoes and leave them where they land, even though
> there's a place for them that she can reach just fine.  I try to remind 
> her
> to put her shoes away when I know she's taking them off, but I'm not 
> always
> around.  She sees me put my shoes back in the same place every time so I 
> can
> find them when I want them, and Dad has a place for his shoes, mostly so
> they stay out of my way on the floor.  But anyway, then there's a frantic
> shoe hunt when she has to be somewhere, like before school this morning, 
> and
> it usually turns into Dad getting exasperated and Mom trying to find the
> shoes while Sarah goes on about some important but unrelated mission,
> because we're in too much of a hurry to make her look for them.
>
> Anybody else have this problem?  Any ideas?
>
> 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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