[blparent] Going on a Shoe Hunt

[Jennifer Jackson]

My boys are still just awful about this shoe thing. One solution that has
worked well for me is to keep a pair of back up shoes aside for these times.
This has usually been a pair of clogs or flip-flops, but sometimes a pair
that I found at a garage sale or something. My two youngest are usually with
in 1 size of each other so something slip on could be for either boy. I have
not done this for the past year or so as they are now old enough to do the
shoe hunt themselves.

As a solution it has the problem of giving the kids the idea that I will
always just rescue them. I do not like that, but when I have a driver
waiting or a bus to catch, my schedule is not always my own. When they were
toddlers and preschoolers I actually kept a bag with back up clothes in it
too. I could have everyone dressed and ready to go before I called the cab
and have naked children a few minutes later. Having a back up bag and
letting them dress under a blanket in the car were actually suggestions from
sited parents who had kids with similar issues.


Jennifer

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Melissa Ann Riccobono
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 10:35 AM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
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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