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[Trudy Pickrel]

Good Afternoon Parents of Blind Children I know many of you may already be on the NFBNet Blind Kid Mailing List but here is a wonderful letter from one of our parents.  I tought of many of you & your children  that I have grown close to.  I know that each day can be a serious of struggles but maybe today this will encourage you. Message: 1
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 20:35:06 -0500
From: Penny Duffy <pennyduffy at gmail.com>
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Subject: [blindkid] "I like it"
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Today my 8 year old daughter and I had a discussion about braille.  We were
talking about how some kids don't get braille even when it could help them.
 She was than told me about one of her friends (who she has O&M with
sometimes) hates braille.  She told me she really wishes her friend would
give it more of a try.  She than said. "Braille... I like it."  I realize
as I type out those words that it doesn't come across how positive and
happy she was when she said those words.  To say the past year and half has
been hard would be an understatement.  My daughter becoming blind has been
such a journey the past 18 months.  It was so hard  dealing with her
frustrations, impatience and resistance.  She was angry that she had to do
things differently than her classmates.  She was angry that she had to
learn to do things differently.  I will simply horrible at times.    Today
I know it all was worth it. She is reading so well.  She skills are getting
better by the day.  She get it.  She knows that being a braille reader
makes her  a reader and she likes being a reader.
 
I am going to say something the first time I heard it seemed shocking to me
and now I believe it .  "Braille isn't hard to learn."  Now helping your
6-7 year old strong willed daughter learn to read while she is adjusting to
vision loss was challenging.  We survived and we are both better for it.
-- 
--Penny


Trudy L. Pickrel
President MD Parents of Blind Children
301-387-4182
301-501-1818
www.tlcbythelake.weebly.com

http://mdparentsofblindchildren.org/
Our independence comes from within. A slave can have keen eyesight, excellent mobility, and superb reading skills?and still be a slave. We are achieving freedom and independence in the only way that really counts?in rising self-respect, growing self-confidence, and the will and the ability to make choices. Above all, independence means choices, and the power to make those choices stick.
 
Kenneth Jernigan
 
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