[blparent] Using jogging strollers

Thu Jun 6 01:34:56 UTC 2013

Carrie Joe, 

I use the city mini jogging stroller and do pool it behind me. All I do is keep the sunshade cover down and while I'm walking somewhat off to the side and in front of the stroller, I curl my fingers under the edge of the sun shade. This does not cause any fishtailing. I don't tilt it backwards or in any fashion. I just pull it. In fact, I never lock the front wheel Because I find that, at least on the streets of San Francisco, if I have to turned suddenly it tilts the stroller sideways making the whole contraption fall.

I hope that makes sense. If not, I'm happy to chat with you off-line. Call me or email me. I'm thinking about possibly not taking my city mini  jogger to convention but I'm pretty sure someone else I know very well will have their jogger. Therefore, I can bring my second stroller that I use mostly nowadays. That way, perhaps, if we were to get together in a group and have hands on demos and  have a variety of strollers to show off. Hope that helps.

LM

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 5, 2013, at 4:39 PM, "mary jo hartle" <mjhartle23 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi all, 
> I'm sure this topic has been discussed several times before, but I'm
> interested in knowing if any of you use a jogging stroller and actually pull
> it.  I know of a lot of blind parents who use one but push it and manage to
> use a cane somehow in front/over top of the stroller, or else just rely on
> usable vision (no cane) to push the stroller, or who some how tilt the
> stroller up on its back wheels so they can pull it (essentially pulling the
> stroller only on the back two wheels instead of all three that it has) , but
> none of these practices are options I feel comfortable with.  Does anyone
> use a jogging stroller and actually pull it behind you? I've practiced with
> a couple of different models from friends and my experience is that because
> of the fact this style of stroller only has three wheels, it tends to
> fish-tail really bad--even the ones that have locking and unlocking front
> wheels--unless you somehow can tilt it back taking the front wheel off the
> ground a bit.  I'd really be interested to know of someone who uses one and
> just literally pulls it without it fishtailing, or if anyone knows of a
> jogging stroller that has a reversible handle that flips somehow making it
> possible to pull it without fishtailing, maybe or that has four wheels
> instead of three?
> Thanks for any info you can share.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lisamaria
> Martinez, NOMC
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 9:54 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] A cool app I found
> 
> Okay I update my previous email to say that if you're going to go for this
> app go for the all in one app. It is called learning pad or audio baby
> talking learning pad. It has a light version which only teaches the
> alphabet, numbers, colors and animals. It only has the training mode though.
> If you pay one dollar and 99, might you can get the full version which
> includes a challenge mode. This gives the child instructions on what to look
> for and much more. I highly recommend it. Even more so than the free
> version.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On May 31, 2013, at 6:41 PM, "Lisamaria Martinez, NOMC"
> <lmartinez217 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> My son is now growing out of some of the apps I found for him a year ago.
> Now that he is too I am looking for new apps that he can play with when
> commuting. I just found a really neat app that teaches colors, which he is
> actually very good at but if you purchase the paid app you can put it in a
> challenge mode which asks the kid to hunt for the different colors. If I
> remember correctly, it is called audio talking color pad or something along
> those lines. When you downloaded the app is actually called color pad. Hope
> that helps. I really like it as a blind parent because you can move your
> finger across the screen and access the  colors which are laid out in
> squares in a keypad fashion and they're labeled. So it is very accessible
> and I highly recommend it.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> _______________________________________________
> blparent mailing list
> blparent at host.nfbnet.org
> http://host.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blparent_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> blparent:
> http://host.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blparent_nfbnet.org/mjhartle23%40gmai
> l.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> blparent mailing list
> blparent at host.nfbnet.org
> http://host.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blparent_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for blparent:
> http://host.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blparent_nfbnet.org/lmartinez217%40gmail.com