Blindfolds

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DD’s school have sent a letter home stating that they are going to start doing team building activities and the children will be blindfolded for most of them. It will involve things like sitting on a chair and trying to work out where the noise is coming from and having a sighted child guide a blindfolded child around the school. They are then going to Kingswood in a few months where they’re doing a blindfolded assault course.

DD told me she’s really scared (and I could see it on her face) about not being able to see as she’s never been blindfolded before but her friends are actually all quite excited about it.
The head teacher mentioned it in assembly and a lot of the children squealed ‘YESSSS’.

I think her fear comes from the fact that the school are very strict at removing girls’ nail varnish and come round most mornings doing ‘nail checks’ whilst holding a bottle of nail varnish removed and cotton wool which has made her a bit scared of them.
DD loves nail varnish but I always make sure hers is removed before school (which deflates her) so the school doesn’t take it off her themselves.
A few of her friends have been given disciplinary action for reapplying nail varnish after they’ve had it removed in school.

I think she’d be fine when she has the blindfold on but do you think there’s anything I can do to help her leading up to it?

She knows the rules apply to her.
She’s good at removing it for school if she has it on and she knows that I also check.

I said she’d feel deflated if she had to remove it in front of the rest of the class which I understand and I think that’s also part of the reason why she’s good at removing it herself.

Not that she’s deflated because she can’t wear it.

Ridiculous thread. I don't understand the purpose of posting this kind of nonsense (unless the OP is a nasty old man with a fetish about schoolgirls and nail polish).

I’m disappointed to hear that people think there is a dark side to this thread.
I just wanted to know why my DD was feeling apprehensive over this, gave my possible reason, and looked for reasons that I can help her.
Especially as the other children are all excited.

Some have been good and I’ll take them on board for her.

Thread closed.

You can't decide to close a thread.

I still don't understand why other students being told off for repeatedly doing the same thing wrong and receiving a natural consequence would make her worried about something unrelated.

Your dd needs to grow up. No nail varnish is a rule. There’s lots of rules in life. She can’t go through life being ‘fearful’. Pathetic.

Yes this was the vibe I got too...