Q. Hi, I am looking for the most amusing/shocking/emotional experience anyone has had growing up in a funeral home or whos parents have owned an undertaking business. Any memories that would capture the experience when ones parents ran such a business. Can be funny, sad, emotional, frightening. This is real research so real answers please.
A. No.
If anyone says yes then there's a 99.99999999999999999999999999999999% that they're lying.
My Mom is a 911 operator though and my dad a police sergeant. They have lots of stories...
Here's some funny/shocking/sad/interesting ones.
~Mom got a call from a college student who was writing a report on deaf people and wanted to see what it was like so he poured high-quality superglue into his ears.
~Mom got a call from a mother who's baby had been accidentally killed by her toddler. The toddler was pretending that the baby was a dog and tied a jump-rope around it's neck. The baby slide down their slide, the rope got caught, and the baby was strangled.
~One of dad's police dogs (before he got promoted) bit a badguy in the thigh and swallowed a huge chunk of flesh. Yum.
~My Mom got a call for a fire and it turns out that the fire was caused by one of this ladies MANY exotic pets. One of her giant monitor lizards chewed through a lamp cord. The firefighters went inside and were attacked by hundreds of exotic and illegal animals including alligators and monkeys.
If anyone says yes then there's a 99.99999999999999999999999999999999% that they're lying.
My Mom is a 911 operator though and my dad a police sergeant. They have lots of stories...
Here's some funny/shocking/sad/interesting ones.
~Mom got a call from a college student who was writing a report on deaf people and wanted to see what it was like so he poured high-quality superglue into his ears.
~Mom got a call from a mother who's baby had been accidentally killed by her toddler. The toddler was pretending that the baby was a dog and tied a jump-rope around it's neck. The baby slide down their slide, the rope got caught, and the baby was strangled.
~One of dad's police dogs (before he got promoted) bit a badguy in the thigh and swallowed a huge chunk of flesh. Yum.
~My Mom got a call for a fire and it turns out that the fire was caused by one of this ladies MANY exotic pets. One of her giant monitor lizards chewed through a lamp cord. The firefighters went inside and were attacked by hundreds of exotic and illegal animals including alligators and monkeys.
How do deaf parents know their babies are crying in the middle of the night?
Q.
A. As the other poster said, they have device that tells them that they have a phone call, someone is at the door, or there's a fire. Usually lights flash.
A Google search of: deaf parents baby monitor
reveals that they also have vibrating pagers they wear to bed.
A Google search of: deaf parents baby monitor
reveals that they also have vibrating pagers they wear to bed.
How to deaf people take care of a baby?
Q. I have always wondered that. They cant hear the baby cry, or hear its first words... What is it like to be deaf and have a baby????
I'm not asking to be rude!!!
I'm not asking to be rude!!!
A. As someone stated there are monitors that flash when a baby cries. It flashes when there are any type of loud noise, so if it's a toddler in their room alone and they break something or knock something over, the parents are alerted by a bright strobe flashing.
As to hearing a baby's first words, they don't care. They see their child's first signs. And that happens A LOT sooner than the first words.
For the rest of parenting, it's just like anyone else...a lot of trial and error. They don't need any additional assistance because of their hearing loss.
As to hearing a baby's first words, they don't care. They see their child's first signs. And that happens A LOT sooner than the first words.
For the rest of parenting, it's just like anyone else...a lot of trial and error. They don't need any additional assistance because of their hearing loss.
How do deaf people wake up on time?
Q. Yup... I think this is one of those up front questions.
A link to whatever device you come up with would be appreciated. I'm not finding any "Strobe Clocks"
A link to whatever device you come up with would be appreciated. I'm not finding any "Strobe Clocks"
A. Vibrating alarm clocks. They go under the pillow.
They sell them here:
http://www.soundclarity.com/vibrating_alarm_clock.asp
.
Edited to add:
Flashing light alarms would only work in a room that's pitch black. If you live in, say, an apartment (as opposed to a basement somewhere) and sleep past dawn, a flashing light would not wake you up when light is already pouring into your apartment from every window.
My deaf friends use flashing light alarms when the phone rings, or the doorbell, or when the baby cries (sound activated). Here's an example of a flashing baby monitor:
http://www.abledata.com/abledata.cfm?pageid=19327&top=11967&productid=101635&trail=22,11860&discontinued=0
They sell them here:
http://www.soundclarity.com/vibrating_alarm_clock.asp
.
Edited to add:
Flashing light alarms would only work in a room that's pitch black. If you live in, say, an apartment (as opposed to a basement somewhere) and sleep past dawn, a flashing light would not wake you up when light is already pouring into your apartment from every window.
My deaf friends use flashing light alarms when the phone rings, or the doorbell, or when the baby cries (sound activated). Here's an example of a flashing baby monitor:
http://www.abledata.com/abledata.cfm?pageid=19327&top=11967&productid=101635&trail=22,11860&discontinued=0
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