[blparent] when children get hurt

[Jennifer Jackson]

The big thing is to not get obviously upset yourself. Sometimes saying
something about dusting them off will get a child to let you inspect them.

Sometimes you just have to accept that you will get it cleaned up in the
bath later. Many little ones also love band aids and can be encouraged to
let you do a little first aid with the promise of one as a reward.


Jennifer

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Ronit Ovadia Mazzoni
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 3:42 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] when children get hurt

Hi list,
I have a question which may seem silly to many of you but I would appreciate
any tips you may have. Whenever Alex falls down or gets hurt somehow and I
am not right there to see what happened, I am having a hard time knowing how
he hurt himself and the severity of the injury. I know this will be
happening more once he learns to walk and I'd love your ideas on how to
handle this. Whenever I know he has hurt himself, I always inspect as best I
can with my hands to see if I feel any blood. Often times, however, he
doesn't let me check him out thoroughly because he is crying and he pushes
my hands away. HE is not old enough to tell me what hurts. We had an
incident at the park a few weeks ago when he cut his lip on a wooden rocking
horse and luckily my husband was there to help figure out how bad it was and
to put water on it etc, but I am terrified that he will get more seriously
hurt when I am by myself and I may not know what he hurt and how bad it is.
What have you all done?

Thanks in advance for your comments.
Ronit


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