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technology Whizz Kid!!!!!!!

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twoplusone · 25/06/2008 13:52

Nos usre if this is the right place to put this.

I have always had problems with my ds1 behaviour. he has toys but doesnt really play with thiem.. they are used as missiles more than anything else. He loves playing on the Wii, changing characters, changing names etc.. ofr example he set up lots of new shracters calleing them all by his name, and others cbeebies. he then changed all the characters on there apart from him and his dad..(who is currently away for a long time).

he will put himself on the pc if I am out for the room, log on and enter the inteternet putting hi,mself onto cbeebies, and navigating round himself and oplaying games.. he has opened new files in desltop and labelled them then stored them. He can open thngs i didnt even know excisted.

At nursery the first place he will go is the pc and he would sit on there all morning quite happily playing on the cbeebies and other learning sites.. oobviously heisrestricted to the amount of time he is allowed to spend ont hem.

The other day i was out of the room starting tea and a friend had come onto msn messengerr.. DS1 started tyoing to her.. his name, then cbeebies, then he had put http.faebook.com!!!! this astounded me as at the time no web page was open and the fact that he had remembered theat http.. goes at the feont of a web address.

I approached school today and asked them about his playing habbots at school, as his toy boxes at home are rarely touched.. *they are all inthe toy room which is an open plan room of the front room. They informed me that he does get very bored witht he toys.. will play cars and trains but not for long.. He loves the pklaydough and goo, loves doign lace up things but his favourinte is the computer and they quite often have to phone the main school for someone to come over and look at the pc as scott will do something to it that no one has a clue how to get rid of, or what he has done!!.. they labelled him to nme as a technology whizz kid.. I have thought that maybe his toys are not appropriate for him and he is bored hence why he is so disruptive at ome. i rarely get 5 mins without him doing something wrong unless he is on the pc or the wii, which I obviously dont let him have all the time.

I mentioned to them about getting a ny first laptop anf they said no.. I would get him one for 7-11age group!!.. my friend tried him with her daughters which is a 5-7one and he got bored very quickly.

This moring also he picked up a book I am reading and said look mammy, that is William name.. and it is the name of the author.. he insisted on taking theb ook to school and showing William and the teachers. he can spot his name and his brothers name on the telly. And knows my name and the word daddy. This I assume is normal for his age group.. but cant rememberr dd doing it this early. I really am not one of these mothers that is my child can do this etc.. as I do get embaressed and hat e that people think I am bigging my kids up.. I do believe everychild has a gift of somesort in them.. do you think technology could be my ds1...!!!!

other children in the class and the year\ above canbearly get onto a web sight with out the help of an adult. But he seems to have an extreemly good memory for things ike this.

Sorry for waughling..

what would you do to encourage him.. I am desperate to try anything that will help him and his behaviour.. whichI awill not go into but I am sure he is a very bored frustrated little boy.. he is 4yrs old.. was four last week..

i really dont know how much omore of his behaviour I can cope with as I am on my own with the three children alot in the last 22months I am lucky if my husband has been hime fore 10months in totsl.. sdo am eager to know which toys etc..I am going to have revamo his collection into mire tactile things.. instead of figures and instrumnets..

Sorry about rambling I hope I have made sense...

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SparklyGothKat · 25/06/2008 14:00

I have a son who was like this at 3. he is now 10 and can do things on computer I can't even think about. He is a computer whizzkid and it is his calling card, I believe.

When he was in reception he could help the teacher if she got stuck with something on the computer. he became her helper to help the other kids.

He has no interest in toys (which has made for interesting xmas and bdays) he will play with it for an hour and thats it. We just give him money now and he buy something for his computer.

Ds1 is also very good at reading so has lots of books.

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TwistOLemon · 26/06/2008 15:38

My nearly 4 yr old autistic ds is like this - also a whizz on the pc !

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notjustmom · 26/06/2008 15:44

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snorkle · 26/06/2008 18:27

He sounds like a geek in the making - and I don't mean that in a bad way at all.

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SparklyGothKat · 26/06/2008 18:33

I do wonder if Ds1 is on the AS line somewhere. He is very good with computers and its all he will talk about. he has no thought for people's feelings and takes things very seriously, especially sayings. He is a computer geek and he has poor social skills.

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PeachyHidingInTheShed · 26/06/2008 18:36

ds3 is also like this, he's almost 5 but as he is asd and minimally verbal its partcularly astounding.

haven't read the other posts but continue allowing him (supervised) pc time but try and extend his other play- it all exists for developmental reassons.

dh is also like this- was selling spectrum programs at 12. I do encourage it loadsm but only because as he is asd i think its his big chance of a career iyswim.

ds1 and ds2 can't tuoch him on it (7 and 8)


but then nursery had to buy special puzzles for him as he mastered others so quickly

but we do try and encourage other play- get nowhere, but we try

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twoplusone · 27/06/2008 10:21

Thank you all for your experiences..

Just means that by the time our children grow up there will be alot of IT geeks...lol.

i will continue letting him play suprevised onthe PC, and will have to think of ways to get him to play with his other toys....

Thanks again everyone.

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cory · 27/06/2008 20:10

Set him to mend the washing machine/hoover/TV. That's how my db started, he then developed an interest in computers when home computers were only just beginning to appear and in his early teens was given the job of training the teachers in IT. He now runs a successful software company and makes his own programmes which are sold worldwide. If only my own dc's took after their uncle!

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PeachyHidingInTheShed · 28/06/2008 12:28

not a lot twoplusone, 6 is a tiny number on mn.

DH is hoping to start his own electronics business in a few years, doing outside event lighting, sales etc (off to uni to study in 18 months, already has small part time business going).

Our hope is that ds3 will be able to assist with the IT side, giving him regular work etc.

SS say ds3 wont be eligibe for care but he'll never manage alone either so we'kk need to fibd him somw way of managing, though he will be abandoned when we go it seems.

Just wish ds1 had a talent bar that of hired heavy or gymnadt (neither seeminglikely to provide long term or nicely)

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