[blparent] Parenting and blindness

Wed Aug 15 02:18:46 UTC 2012

I was going to say, it might have been a bit of food or dirt stuck on her 
arm.  Especially if she didn't try to pull away and wasn't upset about it, 
chances are it was just a goober of one kind or another.  It's funny that 
Bran mentions blood, tears, drool, etc.  Robert Fulghum, who wrote the book 
"Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten", also wrote 
some other books of humorous essays.  In "It was on Fire When I Lay Down on 
It", he talks about kids when they get hurt, and he says they suffer from "a 
general loss of body fluids."  It might start with blood or tears, but 
before the ordeal ends, mucous and drool are a part of it, and the kid will 
probably either wet his pants or throw up, or both, as well.

I'm the one who posted a while back that even from when my daughter was 
really small, I started teaching her to show me where she hurt herself and 
tell me calmly about it, and also to stop crying and calm down when I asked 
her to take a deep breath.  I think she was a little older than Jodie's 
daughter when I started working with her.  She was walking, but barely.  It 
took some time, but now she surprises her teacher because she'll stroll up 
and show off a scrape, even one that's slightly bleeding, and not go into 
hysterics.

Jo Elizabeth

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-----Original Message----- 
From: Brandy W
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 7:08 PM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] Parenting and blindness

Maybe it was just something that got on her arm. Sometimes a bit of dried
food or stuck hair will feel like a scrape. The figuring out hurt thing is
so tough, honestly on my highest don't like because I'm blind list. Is that
blood or tears, mucous or drool because once they fall it all comes, and it
is tough to figure it out.

The more they know to tell you the easier it is. It is also helpful to teach
them not to over react so you know when they are hurt. 'I've got the little
girl I watch to say ow, but I'm ok as when she first came every bump was
cause for whales.

Bran

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-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jodie and Kahlan
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 8:58 PM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [blparent] Parenting and blindness

As soon as Kahlan is old enough to be able to, I think we're going to have
to teach her to tell us when she gets a bruise or a bump and how.
That way we can tell anyone who asks, and maybe she'll tell her teachers,
since we teach her to tell us. I think one of you said you already do taht
and it's a very good idea! She had a scrape on her arm today, but then when
I went to check on it later and intended to tell Chris, the scrape was gone.
She's crawling now, but there's nothing on the floor that could have scraped
her, so I have no idea how she got it, unless she scraped herself on her
bouncer, but the almost immediate disappearance of the scrape is strange.

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