Stairs Suck

I apologize as it’s been a few weeks since I released an issue of Help The Eyes. My family and I were attending reunions throughout Idhao and Utah, but now we will be back on our normal weekly schedule! Now, back to the content that matters:

When you’re visually impaired, there are a lot of scary things in the world that other peope don’t fear, one of those things are stairs, well I’m here to help.

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📍 Q1: I have a blind toddler, what toys shoud I get them to play with?
✅ A: Tactile toys, Auditory toys, and cause-and-effect toys. Tactile toys with different textures, auditory toys so they can learn speech and listening skills, and the cause-and-effect toys (push a button, this happens) so they can start to learn how certain things work in the real world (locks, buttons, seatbelts). A lot of these types of toys can be found on Amazon.

Product Of The Week

Stairway Solutions

A lot of where my accidents happen in and around my house are the stairs. I have stairs coming into my house, going downstairs, going into my garage and going into the backyard.

The amount of times I’ve rolled an ankle, missed a step, or thought there was one more step is a lot.

As we’ve lived here longer, I’ve added some things to combat this:

At the top and bottom of my indoor carpeted stairs, I put a soft textured tile so I know where the stairs stop and where they end.

For the outdoor stairs, I’ve put contrasting colored tiles with a little texture to help me find the first/last step as well.

My wife doesn’t like the ones that lead into our house because they look a little tacky, however, they’re helpful for me, so she puts up with it.

Do this please! This could help protect you from an injury in the future and it will help your peace of mind as well moving forward in your own home.

Give it a try!

The Personal Touch

This weekend, I tripped over my daughter’s pink bike in my driveway. It blended perfectly into our light concrete driveway—I couldn’t see it at all.

I had two choices:

Laugh it off or get angry & frustrated.

That day, I chose anger. I was frustrated—not at my daughter, but at the fact that something that big can be invisible to me.

Here’s the thing: It’s OK to be frustrated. Let your child feel that too. This isn’t an easy journey. Don’t suppress it—sit in it with them. Laugh. Cry. Shout into a pillow if you need to. What matters is that they know you’re there, walking beside them. If it’s you that’s visually impaired, it’s okay to be frustrated. Fins someone to talk to, find some others like you in your community, they’re there, I promise. If you feel like you’re alone in this, there are lots of us going through what you’re going through to a certain degree.

We got this!

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Yard work is hard for us, but I have something that can help!

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Spencer | The Blind Girl Dad