[blparent] Reading time
Myriam D. Cruz
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Wed Jan 23 23:34:30 UTC 2013
Thanks so much for sharing your suggestions and experiences . I have invested in a couple of audio books and am already enjoying our time together!
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> 5. Re: Your thoughts on this? (Robert Shelton)
> 6. Re: I was so proud of my little tiger! (Jo Elizabeth Pinto)
> 7. Re: I was so proud of my little tiger! (Jeri Milton)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:25:54 -0800
> From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
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> 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
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> 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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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:43:26 -0700
> From: "Jeri Milton" <jjmilton at cox.net>
> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
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> I can see where you feel using the doll house was drastic however, I think
> it was a good tactic because it kept their attention. It sounds like she
> paid great attention to what they were saying and that's very good.
>
> Jeri
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 12:36 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
>
> Well, I suppose jumping out a window as a last resort is your best option,
> if your only other choice is facing the fire. Of course, in that case, I
> would want my daughter to jump. But I did talk to her about touching her
> door first to see if it was hot, staying low to the floor because of smoke,
> and stuffing a towel or some clothes under the door to keep out the smoke. I
> said jumping was good if those other things didn't work and the fire was
> coming in, or if a firefighter was down on the grass telling her to jump. I
> only thought actually roleplaying it with a dollhouse and people leaping out
> of bed and finding the door on fire, and then jumping out the windows,
> seemed pretty drastic. I guess it could be the way she perceived it, and not
> exactly the way it was. It's also true that kids learn in concrete ways, so
> maybe the dollhouse was a good idea. It just seems like we have to tell our
> kids so many scary things at such a young age. Since the shooting in
> Connecticut, which I'd been trying to keep from my daughter till she heard
> adults going on and on about it at church, my daughter has been asking me if
> a man with a gun could get in her school--yes he could, but it's not
> likely--and what will happen if everybody dies at the same time because of a
> shooter and nobody lives in our town.
>
> 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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Shelton
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 12:20 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
>
> I don't know about the reenactment with graphic descriptions, but I do know
> that several volunteer fire companies visit schools to do safety
> presentations. One really important thing that they do is to show a
> firefighter in various stages of donning their equipment. The concern is
> that if a child sees a firefighter fully decked out in their gear, they may
> not recognize them as a human being and could be frightened into hiding.
> Obviously, someone could get carried away and unnecessarily frighten the
> children, but making sure they know what to do to save themselves or help
> the firefighter save them seems critical.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto [mailto:jopinto at msn.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 11:36 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> 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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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:45:43 -0600
> From: "Robert Shelton" <rshelton1 at gmail.com>
> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
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> I think there's something to this. My wife says that I say more with my
> face than I probably should. I think it is instinctive, and maybe because
> we don't see other people's faces, we don't calibrate our responses as
> others might expect.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto [mailto:jopinto at msn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:45 AM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> Yeah, idiots tend to bring out the energy instinctively.
>
> 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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:32 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> It's an energy not just a look. That's why you can do this.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:25 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> People tell me I have that look myself, so it must be natural. I've never
> seen facial expressions to copy them.
>
>
>
>
> 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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeri Milton
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:51 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> Hi Jo Elizabeth.
>
> I hope you're ok now. People can be real jerks. I'm proud of your little
> girl too. It's funny how quickly they learn that look isn't it?
>
> Jeri
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:12 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> I fell on the ice yesterday at the bottom of my front porch steps. It
> doesn't get sunny there, so the ice never melts well. But it had been warm,
> and ice wasn't on my mind, so by the time I hit it, I didn't have a second
> to react. I landed flat on my back and hips and threw one arm out in time
> to keep my head from hitting the ground. Then some son of a bitch who was
> walking by started to laugh! I could tell it was a grown man, or at least
> an overgrown child whose voice had changed. I don't know if it was a
> neighbor or a maintenance person or what, but I was appalled. I couldn't
> even imagine anybody laughing at someone who had just fallen on the
> sidewalk, even if I did look stupid going in for a crash landing. I yelled
> out, "Hey thanks, you've been helpful!"
>
> Anyway, my preschooler came over and asked if I was okay, then offered her
> hand so I could get up. She said, "I *stared* at that man who laughed at
> you, Mommy. I just *stared* at him." Later, I asked her to stare at her
> nanna and papa the way she had done when the man laughed at me, and both of
> them told me she already has the death ray look down pat. I was proud of
> her for standing up against unkindness in her own little way.
>
> 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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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:50:33 -0700
> From: "Jeri Milton" <jjmilton at cox.net>
> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
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> The other night my husband was getting onto our son about something.
> I guess at the end of the talking to, Dylan was giving his dad the same look
> that Carl gives him. Later Carl told me that Dylan was looking at me, like
> me!
>
> Jeri
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:25 AM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> People tell me I have that look myself, so it must be natural. I've never
> seen facial expressions to copy them.
>
>
>
>
> 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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeri Milton
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:51 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> Hi Jo Elizabeth.
>
> I hope you're ok now. People can be real jerks. I'm proud of your little
> girl too. It's funny how quickly they learn that look isn't it?
>
> Jeri
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:12 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> I fell on the ice yesterday at the bottom of my front porch steps. It
> doesn't get sunny there, so the ice never melts well. But it had been warm,
> and ice wasn't on my mind, so by the time I hit it, I didn't have a second
> to react. I landed flat on my back and hips and threw one arm out in time
> to keep my head from hitting the ground. Then some son of a bitch who was
> walking by started to laugh! I could tell it was a grown man, or at least
> an overgrown child whose voice had changed. I don't know if it was a
> neighbor or a maintenance person or what, but I was appalled. I couldn't
> even imagine anybody laughing at someone who had just fallen on the
> sidewalk, even if I did look stupid going in for a crash landing. I yelled
> out, "Hey thanks, you've been helpful!"
>
> Anyway, my preschooler came over and asked if I was okay, then offered her
> hand so I could get up. She said, "I *stared* at that man who laughed at
> you, Mommy. I just *stared* at him." Later, I asked her to stare at her
> nanna and papa the way she had done when the man laughed at me, and both of
> them told me she already has the death ray look down pat. I was proud of
> her for standing up against unkindness in her own little way.
>
> 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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> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:02:32 -0600
> From: "Robert Shelton" <rshelton1 at gmail.com>
> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
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> It is traumatic, and exposure to horrible events or the possibility of such
> needs to be moderated by understanding of risks of all kinds.
>
> I grew up in a time when many believed that a nuclear war was all but
> certain. I think those images scarred a whole generation, and in many ways
> we're still seeing echoes of that greatest of all fears, but then, this
> isn't a list for politics or psychology, and I'm not qualified in either
> area.
>
> I do think it's important for parents to begin communicating the concept of
> risk as children are able to appreciate it. The universality of news and
> instant communication brings horrors into our living room, so we must also
> find ways to communicate that what our children see is a distorsion of
> reality. While horrible things can and do happen, they don't happen very
> often, and there are some common sense things we all can do to be as safe as
> we can, without living in a bubble. These are hard concepts for most of us
> to grasp, and bringing them to relevance with children is challenging. My
> dad was an engineer, and he had a gift for explaining things like
> probability to a 4 year old. Maybe just something as simple as "Yes, these
> things happen, but we hear about bad things from all over the world because
> that's what people find interesting. They don't tell stories about kids
> finding lost puppies or someone who got lost on the way home from school and
> then found her way home because that happens all the time. We should be
> careful, but know that most of the time, the good will outweigh the bad."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto [mailto:jopinto at msn.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 1:36 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
>
> Well, I suppose jumping out a window as a last resort is your best option,
> if your only other choice is facing the fire. Of course, in that case, I
> would want my daughter to jump. But I did talk to her about touching her
> door first to see if it was hot, staying low to the floor because of smoke,
> and stuffing a towel or some clothes under the door to keep out the smoke. I
> said jumping was good if those other things didn't work and the fire was
> coming in, or if a firefighter was down on the grass telling her to jump. I
> only thought actually roleplaying it with a dollhouse and people leaping out
> of bed and finding the door on fire, and then jumping out the windows,
> seemed pretty drastic. I guess it could be the way she perceived it, and not
> exactly the way it was. It's also true that kids learn in concrete ways, so
> maybe the dollhouse was a good idea. It just seems like we have to tell our
> kids so many scary things at such a young age. Since the shooting in
> Connecticut, which I'd been trying to keep from my daughter till she heard
> adults going on and on about it at church, my daughter has been asking me if
> a man with a gun could get in her school--yes he could, but it's not
> likely--and what will happen if everybody dies at the same time because of a
> shooter and nobody lives in our town.
>
> 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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Shelton
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 12:20 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
>
> I don't know about the reenactment with graphic descriptions, but I do know
> that several volunteer fire companies visit schools to do safety
> presentations. One really important thing that they do is to show a
> firefighter in various stages of donning their equipment. The concern is
> that if a child sees a firefighter fully decked out in their gear, they may
> not recognize them as a human being and could be frightened into hiding.
> Obviously, someone could get carried away and unnecessarily frighten the
> children, but making sure they know what to do to save themselves or help
> the firefighter save them seems critical.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto [mailto:jopinto at msn.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 11:36 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> 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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> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:03:50 -0700
> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
> To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
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> The interesting thing is, sometimes my facial expressions are right on the
> money, as in the case of the death ray glare. But other times, my
> expressions are, according to my sister, who had reservations about me
> raising a child because of it, "not appropriate to the situation." She was
> worried that my daughter wouldn't learn proper facial expressions which is,
> of course, ridiculous, since Sarah sees other people all the time and can
> also look in a mirror.
>
> 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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Shelton
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:45 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> I think there's something to this. My wife says that I say more with my
> face than I probably should. I think it is instinctive, and maybe because
> we don't see other people's faces, we don't calibrate our responses as
> others might expect.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto [mailto:jopinto at msn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:45 AM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> Yeah, idiots tend to bring out the energy instinctively.
>
> 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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:32 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> It's an energy not just a look. That's why you can do this.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:25 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> People tell me I have that look myself, so it must be natural. I've never
> seen facial expressions to copy them.
>
>
>
>
> 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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeri Milton
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:51 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> Hi Jo Elizabeth.
>
> I hope you're ok now. People can be real jerks. I'm proud of your little
> girl too. It's funny how quickly they learn that look isn't it?
>
> Jeri
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:12 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> I fell on the ice yesterday at the bottom of my front porch steps. It
> doesn't get sunny there, so the ice never melts well. But it had been warm,
> and ice wasn't on my mind, so by the time I hit it, I didn't have a second
> to react. I landed flat on my back and hips and threw one arm out in time
> to keep my head from hitting the ground. Then some son of a bitch who was
> walking by started to laugh! I could tell it was a grown man, or at least
> an overgrown child whose voice had changed. I don't know if it was a
> neighbor or a maintenance person or what, but I was appalled. I couldn't
> even imagine anybody laughing at someone who had just fallen on the
> sidewalk, even if I did look stupid going in for a crash landing. I yelled
> out, "Hey thanks, you've been helpful!"
>
> Anyway, my preschooler came over and asked if I was okay, then offered her
> hand so I could get up. She said, "I *stared* at that man who laughed at
> you, Mommy. I just *stared* at him." Later, I asked her to stare at her
> nanna and papa the way she had done when the man laughed at me, and both of
> them told me she already has the death ray look down pat. I was proud of
> her for standing up against unkindness in her own little way.
>
> 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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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:27:08 -0700
> From: "Jeri Milton" <jjmilton at cox.net>
> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
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> One of my best friends told me one time when I had given him a dirty look,
> "For a blind chick, you sure can give looks to kill."
>
> Jeri
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Robert
> Shelton
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:46 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> I think there's something to this. My wife says that I say more with my
> face than I probably should. I think it is instinctive, and maybe because
> we don't see other people's faces, we don't calibrate our responses as
> others might expect.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto [mailto:jopinto at msn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:45 AM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> Yeah, idiots tend to bring out the energy instinctively.
>
> 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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:32 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> It's an energy not just a look. That's why you can do this.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:25 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> People tell me I have that look myself, so it must be natural. I've never
> seen facial expressions to copy them.
>
>
>
>
> 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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeri Milton
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:51 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> Hi Jo Elizabeth.
>
> I hope you're ok now. People can be real jerks. I'm proud of your little
> girl too. It's funny how quickly they learn that look isn't it?
>
> Jeri
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:12 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] I was so proud of my little tiger!
>
> I fell on the ice yesterday at the bottom of my front porch steps. It
> doesn't get sunny there, so the ice never melts well. But it had been warm,
> and ice wasn't on my mind, so by the time I hit it, I didn't have a second
> to react. I landed flat on my back and hips and threw one arm out in time
> to keep my head from hitting the ground. Then some son of a bitch who was
> walking by started to laugh! I could tell it was a grown man, or at least
> an overgrown child whose voice had changed. I don't know if it was a
> neighbor or a maintenance person or what, but I was appalled. I couldn't
> even imagine anybody laughing at someone who had just fallen on the
> sidewalk, even if I did look stupid going in for a crash landing. I yelled
> out, "Hey thanks, you've been helpful!"
>
> Anyway, my preschooler came over and asked if I was okay, then offered her
> hand so I could get up. She said, "I *stared* at that man who laughed at
> you, Mommy. I just *stared* at him." Later, I asked her to stare at her
> nanna and papa the way she had done when the man laughed at me, and both of
> them told me she already has the death ray look down pat. I was proud of
> her for standing up against unkindness in her own little way.
>
> 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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> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:29:11 +0000
> From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
> To: "Blind Parent (blparent at nfbnet.org)" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blparent] a neat column
> Message-ID: <AAE38548E198F64B8E345439B68CCC7833186F4F at TSEAMB02>
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> This is from the Huffington Post.
> There is a cartoon with two parents from the 1940's. The mom says "I can't find the baby's shoe print maker kit".
> The dad says "What the f*** are you talking about?"
> Enjoy.
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-morrison/motherhood_b_2271349.html
>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:54:29 +0000
> From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List' <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Questions on how to clip finger/toe nails
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> Any other Jane Austen fans will probably know this, but back in the early 1800's, it was a huge extravagance to have one's hair cut outside the home. It was also considered foolish, and was used as one way to symbolize that the guy Emma was interested in was a total dud.
> Interesting to think about. I suspect that a lot of these men had servants cut their hair.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Erin Rumer
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 6:06 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Questions on how to clip finger/toe nails
>
> Hey there,
>
> I've heard that barbers will do that kind of thing for just a couple of
> bucks so find someone who will cut your son's nails when you bring him in
> for a haircut and you'll be killing two birds with one stone. You could
> also ask your son's pediatrician to do it or at least one of the nurses in
> the office when your son goes in for his physicals and such.
>
> Erin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rhonda
> Lewis-Kubehl
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 10:35 AM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] Questions on how to clip finger/toe nails
>
> Hi, my son is 4, and up to now, my friend use to clip his finger/toe nails.
> my friend use to clip his nails.
> Now, my friend is working long days 7 days a week, I have to clip them.
> I'm afraid of clipping them too low, or enhurting him.
> I tried filing his nails, but he hates the texture of the filer, so we don't
> do that anymore.
>
> -- Kubehl Christian Academy
>
> Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment
> that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them
> that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When
> will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you
> know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that
> have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your
> arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a
> Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are
> a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you,
> a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its
> children." ~ Pablo Picasso I always personally reference how Jesus treated
> his disciples - a group of unruly, uneducated, fishermen. He never yelled,
> hit, punched, belittled...yet they came to know and love the Lord with their
> entire beings - all through his gentle, firm, loving teachings. That is how
> I want to parent my children."
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> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:24:03 +0000
> From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List' <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Reading time
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> I'm reading this as two questions.
> First, there is teaching her letters. Second is reading for pleasure, and these aren't necessairly in the order I present them.
> You can use blocks or a computer or an Iphone to show her what letters look like, an a looks like (whatever a print a looks like) and so on.
> She will be able to recogonize the letters and she can tell you what she sees. You can then help her with the context, I've been told b and d look a lot alike, so if she's reading about baseball, you can teach her that it will never say dasedall, because that doesn't make sense.
>
> As for the reading for pleasure, you can listen to audio books with her, and you can always sit with your husband and other family members while they read to her.
> You can also have her read to you.
> You really just need to convey interest. My daughter loves Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and I wasn't the one who introduced her to it. She doesn't like chocolate so I didn't think a book about a chocolate factory would appeal to her. Her teacher began reading it and she loves the book. It's also one of my favorite books. My daughter is one of the few people who will discuss with me at length about the glass elevator. How did it leave the ground, how did it land, and was it really glass? Most people look at me like I'm nuts when I have asked those questions.
> There are all kinds of ways you and your daughter can bond with reading.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Myriam D. Cruz
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 12:02 AM
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blparent] Reading time
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to know how do you go about spending quality reading time with your little ones. Isabella really loves books now and actually wants to know what the words say. Before losing my eyesight I was able to teach her the basics but now she really asks specific questions. I have neuropathy so Braille is not an option for me. My hubby and family read to her but I want that precious time with her and I want it to be fun as well as productive.
>
> Thanks so much!
> Myriam
>
> GOD BLESS THE BUESTAN CRUZ FAMILYSent from my iPhone
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> Message: 11
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:05:49 -0700
> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
> To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Reading time
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> "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is a great book to read aloud. The
> Oompa-Loompas are a total riot. The movies don't do them justice.
>
> Have you read the second one where the glass elevator goes into space?
> There are aliens in it, and time travel.
>
> 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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:24 AM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Reading time
>
> I'm reading this as two questions.
> First, there is teaching her letters. Second is reading for pleasure, and
> these aren't necessairly in the order I present them.
> You can use blocks or a computer or an Iphone to show her what letters look
> like, an a looks like (whatever a print a looks like) and so on.
> She will be able to recogonize the letters and she can tell you what she
> sees. You can then help her with the context, I've been told b and d look a
> lot alike, so if she's reading about baseball, you can teach her that it
> will never say dasedall, because that doesn't make sense.
>
> As for the reading for pleasure, you can listen to audio books with her, and
> you can always sit with your husband and other family members while they
> read to her.
> You can also have her read to you.
> You really just need to convey interest. My daughter loves Charlie And The
> Chocolate Factory and I wasn't the one who introduced her to it. She doesn't
> like chocolate so I didn't think a book about a chocolate factory would
> appeal to her. Her teacher began reading it and she loves the book. It's
> also one of my favorite books. My daughter is one of the few people who
> will discuss with me at length about the glass elevator. How did it leave
> the ground, how did it land, and was it really glass? Most people look at
> me like I'm nuts when I have asked those questions.
> There are all kinds of ways you and your daughter can bond with reading.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Myriam D.
> Cruz
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 12:02 AM
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blparent] Reading time
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to know how do you go about spending quality reading time with
> your little ones. Isabella really loves books now and actually wants to know
> what the words say. Before losing my eyesight I was able to teach her the
> basics but now she really asks specific questions. I have neuropathy so
> Braille is not an option for me. My hubby and family read to her but I want
> that precious time with her and I want it to be fun as well as productive.
>
> Thanks so much!
> Myriam
>
> GOD BLESS THE BUESTAN CRUZ FAMILYSent from my iPhone
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