[blindkid] Mommy, my baby is blind

[Rene Harrell]

Greetings all,

I hope everyone is gearing up for a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow. :-)

For the past month or so, our 4.5 year old (sighted) son is starting to try
and process what blindness is and how that makes his sister different/same
as he is. He has a few baby dolls and he has been insisting in the past
month "Mommy, my baby is blind, like Clare" and then he likes to talk about
what that means for his baby. If I'm sitting down to read a story to him and
his baby "Mommy, my baby can't read that book. My baby is blind, he needs a
book with Braille in it so he can see it too", and so we get up and find a
twin vision book that is acceptable to all parties.  Another big one that is
coming up is his insistence that his baby needs a cane. "Mommy, help! Help!
My baby is going to crash the wall! He doesn't have a cane!" or simply
"Mommy, do we have a cane my baby can use? He gets scared without a cane
'cause he doesn't want to fall down the stairs!" (And then of course,
because he is very much a four year old boy, it is followed with a dramatic
presentation of him flinging his baby doll down the stairs. Huh!).

I got creative and fashioned a little cane out of some foam, but it's not
all that durable and he's already gone through two of them in the past week.
I'd really like to get him a doll-sized cane for Christmas....he would
really, really enjoy that. I figured I would check with the list and see if
anyone here has ever found a place that sells doll sized canes/adaptive
equipment?

Thanks so much, and enjoy the holiday tomorrow!
:-)
Rene

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