[blparent] Keeping young children safe as parents with a visual impairment

Tue Jan 3 18:00:46 UTC 2012

They are called chord cleats.
We used them.
Strangulation is silent and you may find they give you piece of mind because you won't have established a baseline for what your foster child is likely to do and not do

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Miranda B.
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 4:57 PM
To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] Keeping young children safe as parents with a visual impairment

Hi,
I think we may tie our blind chords up as well. Have any of you used the
Blind chord holders (sorry I can't think of the technical name)? They're
these spool like things that you can wrap the chords around to wind them up
so they stay higher up.
Thanks, and have a great day!

In Christ, Miranda

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Veronica Smith
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 2:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Keeping young children safe as parents with a visual
impairment

Oh, that reminded me, that's another thing I did, was cut the cords in Gab's
room so she could not hang herself.  It seemed like a good idea at the time,
but now I still have those blinds and it is almost impossible to raise them
or lower them with the funky cords.  I think if I had it to do over, I would
of just tied them up. Live and learn.

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 9:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Keeping young children safe as parents with a visual
impairment

Give the state any information you can find, but Sheila is right.  Like I
told my sister when she worried that my baby would put something in her
mouth and choke on it, or get knocked over by the dog, or some other
horrific thing--blind parents don't keep the emergency rooms open by
themselves.  Accidents happen to everybody, and the best you can possibly do
is take every precaution you can think of, and then maybe try to dream up a
few more, and then relax, know basic first aid, and hope for the best like
all other parents do.  I know sighted parents whose children drank cough
medicine and had to go get charcoal in the emergency room, or swallowed
coins and had to go to the hospital and get them fished out.  I've got a
friend who had a neighbor that lost her two-year-old to strangulation
because of a cord on a window blind.  I've got another friend who knows a
couple with a ten-year-old daughter who nearly drowned in a swimming pool
last summer.  None of them were bad parents.  Momentarily inattentive maybe,
but who hasn't been?

I guess that would be my main stress point for the social workers, is that
you realize as blind parents, you have to be more attentive than your
sighted peers.  You have to know what possible dangers are in the
environment, eliminate the ones you can, and take extra care to put what
shouldn't be reached out of reach.  You have to follow safety rules
rigidly--hold hands in parking lots, cut grapes and hot dogs in half to
minimize the choking risk, etc--because you know you can't fall back on your
vision.

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: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 8:51 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Keeping young children safe as parents with a
visualimpairment> I don't know if we did anything differently than
visualimpairment> sighted
parents should have been doing accept understand that vision was not an
option to be used.
We had baby gates. We had a baby monitor, when we built a deck it was railed
and had a gate on it. We taught him to come when he was called and that lule
was consedered unbreakable. We had a fenced yard in fact it was six feet
high and then people complained that it looked like a prison. We had a baby
gate separating the kitchen and the living room until our son discovered at
the ripe old age of 2 how to unlock it. Then we were told that he watched us
do it surprise surprise he could see. We tried to keep him from climbing oh
welll that only lasted so long. We held hands when we crossed the street.
There is no way to plan for everything and sighted people can't do it eiter.

And if they claim that they do they are deceiving themselves as well as
others.
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