To fill the void I have created in Samuel's life by temporarily removing The Upside Down Show, he is now watching his Bob the Builder DVD. When the DVD player isn't available he is putting it into our Playstation II (this is during time when he has reached "Your Choice" on his schedule). He likes looking up Bob the Builder when he is on the internet and likes to listen to the starting theme song in different languages.
I tried watching Samuel play on the computer tonight and he got very upset "Okay Mom, now you can go!" I'll have to take some time to get him used to having me around, I'm hoping that we can play games together on the computer.
It's starting to get complicated when the boys have free time and they compete over electronic devices to play with! There's enough to go around, it only gets to be a problem when two of them want the same thing.
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Same problem in our house with the computer, my girls are not interested in anything but the computer. Just so homework can be done we had to get a second cheaper computer and now the girls call it Beauty's computer though we all use it.We seem to have similar issues with DVD's,Barney's Big adventure is the flavour of the month with Beauty but not with her sisters.I'm also not to keen on Barney but I do love Bob The Builder.Bob The Builder was the first thing Beauty ever said, not Mum or Dad but Bob The Builder!
Right now I'm typing on "Samuel's computer" which we bought a few years ago. It has a touch screen, but he learned to work with the mouse pretty quickly. It is used by the whole family now too.
Samuel likes to look at Barney video covers. He frequently gets them from the libary, but he doesn't care to watch them. His first word was "cheese"!
I can't stand watching my little one learn to play a computer game.... drives me batty. Once he's mastered it... I can follow what he's up to.
We got another computer through "Computer for Kids". It's a rebuilt but the price was right... free. One day we'll request another one. We're lucky and happy to have it.
I'd like to teach the eldest to use the Nintendo I bought him after Xmas... we'll have to sit and play with it. That'll drive me even more batty if possible :)
I must admit I don't watch Samuel all that much on the computer. I need to do that however, to make sure he is not constantly stimming. From the little bits I see, his activity on the computer is a bit odd, but purposeful to him. Nobody ever has to teach him anything on a computer or an electronic game. He methodically goes through all controls on any electronic device until he learns how to use it.
Charlie is a Bob The Builder boy right now too. Fortunately it is a show that I can stand, unlike the Wiggles. Thanks for visiting Charlie's book blog, I think that the more I learn about autism the more similarities I seem to become aware of between other children and Charlie.
I agree wholeheartedly with you that autism is just something that we need to take in stride rather than to act like it is a death sentence.
There was a blog that I found and began reading daily back in November. It was about a young boy's fight against cancer. He died a couple of months after I first found the blog. There are a lot worse things than autism out there.
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