[blparent] child locators

[Stephanie Mitchell]

Sounds interesting.  I think I might stick with bells though.  
The problem I have though with bells is that i have a hearing 
loss and can't hear them.  Any ideas what I can use instead?
Steph


 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 09:27:42 -0700
Subject: Re: [blparent] child locators

Hi Stephanie.  I bought a child locator when my daughter started 
walking.
I've used it a few times, but not as often as I would have liked 
to because
the part that goes on the child, which is shaped like a teddy 
bear, just has
the kind of a clip you would slide through a belt.  But since my 
daughter
doesn't usually wear belts, I haven't found a good way to fasten 
the locator
to her clothes.  If you buy one, look for a locator with a better 
typle of
clip or pin that you could fasten to a shirt or the top of the 
baby's pants.

The child locator I bought has two parts.  The teddy bear part 
goes on the
child, like I said.  The other part goes on an adult's keychain.  
There's a
button on the keychain part that, when pressed, lets out a very 
loud beeping
sounds from the teddy bear.  I've told Sarah that if she ever 
hears the
beeper, which we've practiced with a few times, she should look 
around and
try to find me, and come straight back to me if she can.  It's a 
comfort to
me, also, though, that the beeper noise is so loud that it's 
bound to grab
the attention of passersby, just in case the unthinkable is 
happening, and
somebody's trying to abduct my baby.  The noise and sudden 
attention might
stop something bad from happening.

I bought the Mommy, I'm Here! child locator on amazon.com.  It's 
an
inexpensive model, and the only thing I don't like it is the 
typle of clip
on the teddy bear.  There are way more expensive models out 
there.  I think
I might have paid about thirty dollars.

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: "Stephanie Mitchell" <mumwith2kids at gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:34 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blparent] child locators

 Anyone used one? What was it like?
 Steph

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