[blParent] Braille Book Resources for Blind Parents?

Fri Jul 24 14:56:07 UTC 2020

Thank you. 
We read the Little House books too. 
What was interesting about those is that our oldest daughter was very very critical of the stories. 
She pointed out that there was absolutely no reason for the family to leave the Big Woods, they had plenty to eat, they had family, they had a nice house, they had friends, they had recreation. 
The things that intrigued her most about Big Woods were Pa’s gun and Uncle George which prompted us to do a lot of research on the Ingalls family. 
This wasn’t a bad thing, it lead to all types of neat discussions about mental health, about the Civil War, about how books are written and why they are written. 
We read the rest of the series, and I remember explaining that the strollers for our younger kids have better shock absorbers then pa’s wagon. 
When we started the series, I was thinking a sweet set of stories. We enjoyed the experience, it just didn’t turn out what I was expecting. 
That’s fine though because now we make fun of the family too, “time to move, Pa isn’t happy again” “They were so flaky, they couldn’t even find another wagon train to join” “Bet they really miss the Big Woods now” when they got into trouble later on in the series. 

Kids today are a lot smarter then we were I think. 

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From: Melissa Ann Riccobono via BlParent
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 6:47 PM
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These are really good points. My oldest loved to be read to! It was one of his favorite things. My middle also liked it, but not as much as her brother at first. My youngest... Well, she would play around me while I read, but never seemed that interested... That is, until she started getting a lot of ear infections. She would not show the typical symptoms with her ear infections. She rarely ran fevers, and did not seem off balance, and she did not even pull at her ear much. But what I started noticing is that she always wanted to just sit and read with me, and, sure enough, I'd take her to the doctor, and she had an ear infection. She finally needed ear tubes, which were wonderful. I wish we had gotten them earlier for her.
As my son got older, he wanted to mostly read by himself. He did not mind me reading to him, but he would rather go up to his room and read to himself before bed. My two younger ones love for me to read to them at night before bed. They are old enough now that I have read almost all of the Little House books to them, and we are now starting a series about Polish American girls from Wisconsin, (where I grew up) which are books my mom read to me and my sister when we were young. 
I think it is nice to have books around to read together, but it's also great to get books from a library so your child has variety. Or, of course, just telling stories is a great way to talk to your baby.
Congratulations!
Melissa

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We get a lot of braille from Library Of Congress.

Like you, I wanted lots of Braille books when my first was born. 
What I found out was that my kids are hug monsters. When they were babies they wanted me to hold them and I found it impossible to read Braille while doing that. 
We listened to a lot of NLS books. 
When they are tiny, it doesn’t matter what you listen to, with my youngest, my two favorites were The Boys In The Boat and Dead Wake, not kids books but great stories, both of which actually happened. 
It also gave me things to talk about with my husband other then the baby. 

Realize that when your baby gets older, he or she will want books that you may not have and may not be able to get in Braille. 
That’s fine, again, they want to explore interests and share them with you. 
My oldest likes dinosaurs, something I never really cared about until she got into them when she was very very young, like barely able to talk young. 

I remember her favorite book was one called The Day The Dinosaurs Died back when she was in preschool. 
I haven’t found that one in Braille.  She wanted many dinosaur books that she found at the library, and I can clearly remember when she was in first grade taking a banana, putting it in my hand and telling me that was how long a t-rex’s tooth is.  It was neat, she was so intent on explaining it to me.  
My middle daughter really liked this book called How To Be An Elephant which talks about the family structure of elephants and Boss Baby.  I’m not sure if that book is in Braille, even if it is, she got Boss Baby right when her little brother was born so the copy of the book she has matters to her. 

Know too that as the times change what our kids are comfortable reading changes. 

I have been reading The Mouse And The Motorcycle in Braille to our middle child. 
My husband and her were both all excited when I got that one out, again from the library of Congress and they both said “yay Braille!” when I opened it. It was adorable. 
Reading went just fine until we got to the chapter where the little boy gets sick. The symptoms just happen to be many of the Covid symptoms. 

That really freaked out our daughter. The interesting thing is that I selected the book because it didn’t mention school or other human playmates.  My husband and I had noticed that the books involving school and friends really upset her once school closed. 

It took her many weeks before she was ready to have me continue reading The Mouse And The Motorcycle.  I almost sent it back.  Then she noticed it and made me promise that the little boy didn’t have covid. 

All this is to say, obtain books if that is what you want to do, just know that your first priority is to enjoy your child and that that form may not look like what you are thinking.   

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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 9:03 PM
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While they are little, the teacher and Braillist May provide more from school.

In the USA and some other countries there are free libraries sponsored by the Library of Congress here and government organizations overseas.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 9:04 PM mind Star via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org>
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> I love the seedlings angel program. You get about 3 free books a year.
> You have to sign up.
> Also braille tails from aph is another great one.
> Also the actionfund.org
>
> Hope this helps a little.
> Amanda
>
> On 7/20/20, Natalie via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I’m wondering if there are any programs for free or low-cost books 
> > for
> blind
> > parents of sighted children? I definitely plan to purchase books 
> > from the main Braille children’s books places, but would love to 
> > have giant piles
> of
> > books without going broke. 😊
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any info.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Natalie
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