[blparent] Can't keep in a bubble

[Veronica Smith]

The little boy who lives a few houses down was running summer before last,
leaped up and tried to grab the tree branch, missed and fell and broke his
collar bone.  That was the first week of summer. He was 7. 
The grass was wet as the  sprinklers had just gone off and if that was a
contributing factor no one knows, but his mom was standing right  there and
she said it was like watching a movie.
A few years ago, the neighbors were swinging in their backyard, on a fancy
smancy swing set and the little girl flipped off backwards and broke her
wrist and her mom, another neighbor and I were standing right there. Kids
are dangerous at all speeds. 
Gab is a scaredy cat but even she came flying down the neighbors drive-way
on her scootter last summer, hit the lip of the road and flew face first
into the asfault.  Luckily her elbows took the brunt of the fall and not her
face.

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Peggy
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 12:20 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Can't keep in a bubble

And even if you watch them, there will be times they go to a park or
something with their friends, climb the poles of the swingset and jump down
cutting their bottom lip from mouth to chin ... I mean not that my well
behaved children would ever do anything like this, I'm sure they know better
than to climb up the pole to the top of the swingset like that ... or they
should know now!



-----Original Message-----
From: Veronica Smith
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 12:29 PM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: [blparent] Can't keep in a bubble

Whether we are blind or we are sighted, all of us want to keep our kiddos
safe.  That is true for all of us. But life happens and whether our kids are
jumping on a trampoline or riding their bikes or running across a park, they
will, guaranteed, get hurt.
It doesn't matter if you  live in the middle of a big city or out in the
country, whether yor child is at home, at school or confined to their room.
Some how they find a way to hurt themselves.  It's called life.
Like I said, last weekend Gab slammed into our humidifier, cut her toes,
banged her head on the wall and through all that, smashed my mother's
precious bird clock.  That was in our house and today, over a week later,
her toe is still raw and the nail just came off.  Kids are kids.
My mother used to say, don't let her do this, don't let her do that, she'll
get hurt.
I used to say, we cannot and I will not keep her in a bubble.   She needs to
learn and to play and to understand what it means to be careful.
V


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