[blparent] Your thoughts on this?

[Erin Rumer]

Hello,

My father was huge on the Boy Scout motto while I was growing-up which says,
"Always be prepared."  Of course, my father stuck to explaining things and
reenacting tragedies that were age appropriate but I truly feel to this day
that it helped prepare me to be on guard and think before reacting what
trouble is happening.  Making something muscle memory is a great way to
prepare one's self for those worse case scenarios.  After all, this is what
Karate and all types of defense training work to do.  I can't help but think
about that one 6 year old little girl who survived in the recent school
shooting because she thought to lay-down and stay really quiet while all of
her classmates were being blown away.  Maybe that little girl had amazing
instincts but maybe her parents had talked a lot with her and prepared her
as much as they could for tragic situations.  The shooter saw all the blood
on that little girl that actually belonged to her class mates and he thought
she was dead.  I only pray that my husband and I can instill great instincts
and muscle memory into our son for emergency situations and at the same time
do it in a way that doesn't scare him but instead empowers him and helps him
to feel more prepared.

Erin

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 9:36 PM
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Subject: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?

on this?
My four-year-old came home from school on Friday, and when she played with
her dollhouse, she imagined that the door was on fire while everybody was in
bed. Then she started having the Dora family characters jump out the second
and third story windows. I questioned her a bit, and she said that some
officers (I call them that because she couldn't tell me for sure if they
were firefighters or policemen, since they had no big red truck, but I'm
guessing they were firefighters) brought a dollhouse to school and talked
about what to do if there was a fire in the night. She swears they acted out
a scene where the mommy doll and the little girl doll jumped out the
windows. Now I remember fire safety from when I was a kid. Stop, drop, and
roll, get out of your house and have a meeting place for your family, call
911 and all, but I don't recall anything as drastic as an enactment by
firefighters with a real dollhouse and a roleplay of dolls jumping out of a
flaming home. Do any of you have experiences with this; is it typical for
young kids to be educated this way nowadays? Does this seem a little drastic
to all of you, or am I just being protective of my little girl's innocence?
I know she has to be ready for the world and its dangers, but she doesn't
need to have fears put in her mind before she hits the ripe old age of five,
either. It seems a bit much, coming on the heels of the school shooting
drills.


Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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