[blindkid] Age-Appropriate and isolation?
Gerardo Corripio
gera1027 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 03:27:32 UTC 2014
HI guys
I've got hopefully and interesting topic for discussion, raised by my
recalling a phenomenon of mine which I don't know if it's normal? I was
almost always isolated as a kid; I never went outside to play with the
neighborhood kids; hardly ever went to friends' houses after school etc;
the afternoons I remember spent at home (apart from doing homework)
playing by myself, tape recording myself etc. Music I liked Spanish
Children's music until I was about thirteen or fourteen when on a trip
here to Mexico to see relatives, an aunt introduced me to young adult
music, and several years later, thanks to my sister who at the time was
ten or eleven and I was almost let's see eighteen or nineteen years old,
months from graduating from high school, I began with her, to get
familiar with English Pop young adult music!
AS for TV, until I was maybe in SIXTH grade, I used to like PBS
programs like 123 Contact, Reading Rainbow, and don't laugh when I say
Mr. Rogers Neighborhood! Imagine the looks I got when in middle school
told my friends I liked those things on TV especially Mr. Rogers! How
would I suppose to know that this wasn't age-appropriate? I learned what
they watched, and began watching kind of age-appropriate programs etc etc.
After my little minibiography of my early years and how
age-unappropriate I was, and because I wouldn't like for future
generations of blind kids to grow up this way, I'd encourage you parents
to as early as possible, via the NFB especially, seek role models! If my
parents would have known of the NFB, I sometimes think how different
my life would have been! Also if I would have had brothers or sisters
near my age, also, but OK things happened as they did, right?
Any other viewpoints on this subject, or experiences you as parents
might have had with your blind children?
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Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta Reiki
Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas México
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