[blparent] What's the right age?

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)]

Yes, she should deffinately tell you when she's changing locations.
Actually, she shouldn't tell you, she should ask you. Big difference and you need to let her know that.

Make it clear that this is a requirement not an option.

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peggy
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 9:52 AM
To: Jo Elizabeth Pinto; Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] What's the right age?

I don't think 4 is to young to play in someone's house if you know the kids
and the parents.  However, as others have said on this list, I think she
should tell you when she's going into a different yard, into a house, just
anytime she changes locations.  My son is 12 and I still make him do this
that way I know where he is supposed to be at all times.



-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:21 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] What's the right age?

Hi.  I have a question about when to lengthen the apron strings a little.

Sarah's friends were playing outside this afternoon.  There were two girls
of about ten, then one Sarah's age, and a younger kid who's maybe two or so.
I told Sarah she could go play ball with them.  I went into the house to
work for a little while because I knew Sarah was fine.  But when I went
outside to check, they weren't in the yard anymore.  They probably went into
the house to watch a movie or something.

So, when do you let them have a little room?  At four, is Sarah old enough
to be playing at someone else's house when I'm not there?  I don't want to
be one of those helicopter moms who hovers too much.  I know the mother of
the girls who live there.  But I thought they would stay in the yard.
Should I let it be, or go get her?

Sarah's dad thinks it's fine and I'm just acting a little paranoid.

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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