AGH!!!!

January 2nd, 2010

My mother gave Fuss some sort of LeapFrog toy called a Diji for Christmas. He calls it his ‘gameboy’. It’s opened up a entire new vocabulary for him - it’s all about killing the little monsters that come up on the screen. Worst than that, the first night after I set it up for him (Boxing Day) my husband sat down for dinner and said to me in all seriousness, “I want my son back”.

This is what I see of Fuss:

Any ideas?

I can’t allow him free access to it during the week or we’ll never get anything done. My thought at the moment is that once Monday rolls around and we are back to our normal routine (yeah, I’m not exactly sure what that is either), I plan to limit the ‘gameboy’. I’d like to say not at all during the week and half an hour each weekend day. He can choose the half hour.

He just gets so sucked into it when he’s playing. He will turn it off and find an expansion activity, but after a while he’ll go back to it. I will admit it’s not as bad as I had thought one of these would be for him, but it’s upsetting me enough.

Not sure how limiting it will go - I’ll keep you posted!

Enjoying the journey despite this media intrusion, Amanda

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1. Hilary | January 3rd, 2010 at 10:51 am

Hi Amanda,

This post made me laugh. I can see how engrossed he is. It’s brand new to him and it’s going to keep his intense focus for that reason. My belief is that if restrictions are rigid, he’s not going to get its newness out of his system. He’ll think about it more than you’d like. I’d have given my own guys daily access for about a half hour, and longer on weekends. This would be after other obligations were met. I think he’ll feel less passionate about it if it’s not forbidden fruit. Give those two sweeties a hug for me, please.
2. April W [APHS] | January 3rd, 2010 at 9:37 pm

Well I was thinking that maybe you could put it out of sight, somewhere he can not reach it, so that when he asks for it you can tell him, I put it ‘blank space’ and cannot [or will not] get it down right now.

He could also earn tickets for activities that he likes by doing his normal routine.

I have heard that this system works, but you have to be consistant and it doesn’t seem very AP…

Is he able to understand that” although there are things he thinks he is old enough to decide that it is Mommy’s job to help him make good decisions”

There might be some meltdowns but if you are consistent with whatever you decide, then things should turn out the way you want them to.

now for my opinion… Davy got a DSI from Grandma for Christmas and played it nonstop for a couple of days but has moved past being on it all the time. So for right now I am just going to try and step back and see if he is mature enough [age 10] to self monitor himself.

Good luck

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