[blparent] when children get hurt

[sharon howerton]

Jo Elizabeth, your comments are always so down to earth and keep me on this 
list.
Sharon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] when children get hurt


> Actually, it was kind of funny, the first time my daughter told me she was 
> bleeding, she had scraped her foot.  She put my hand on the scrape, and 
> she didn't know the word "blood" or "bleeding."  So she said, "Mommy, it 
> has cherry on it" because of the red color of the blood.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a 
> song."  Maya Angelou
>
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> From: "Robert Shelton" <rshelton1 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 8:46 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] when children get hurt
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>> This is really smart.  Of course, as blind parents, we need to inspect 
>> with
>> our hands (I don't know another way).  But touching a scrape really 
>> hurts.
>> Just checking  your own self out really smarts, so just think about a 
>> little
>> kid who doesn't really understand what's going on -- just hurts real bad,
>> and someone is trying to touch my booboo.  Getting your child to do the
>> first triage for you is borderline brilliant, and no, this is not just a
>> blindness thing.  Lots of parents could learn from this.
>>
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