Lessons Learned from Visually Impaired Children # 2

While it's important for the little ones to learn to use a cane to navigate the outside world the reality is they don't need it in familiar territory.

The kids can run and play around a room they are familiar with and you would never even know they are blind. I however, with perfect vision, still manage to run into my dresser atleast twice a week and have the bruises to prove it.

So what was lesson number two for me working with visually impaired kiddos?

"C" taught me that you can't move things in the room and not inform the children.

I didn't personally move the trashcan, but it was moved to clean up the aftermath of craft project.

This may not seem to suspicious yet.

You see little "C" was chewing gum, which is outlawed in the school for multiple reasons so he was asked to throw it away (do you see where this is going?)

Of course the trashcan was missing and little "C" was just doing what he was asked- the problem is I was unfortunately tying "J's" shoe in almost the exact place where the trashcan belonged.

That's okay "C" I needed a hair cut anyways :).