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Monday, September 22, 2014

Jessica Alba naked and other mundane topics while lying in bed...

While curled up in bed with Angus last night, we were talking being silly and I honestly cannot remember how our conversation got from where it started to where it ended, but it's priceless. 

Angus said something to me about a male celebrity (I can't remember who) and I said he's not on my list. Then he asked me just who is *on* my list as me, his wife, is the only one on his. I chuckle and say What about Jessica Alba?  He says, What about her? I said Isn't she on your list?  What if she shows up naked at the front door?  He says he'd call the police.  I laugh and say Sure.. why? "Because she had a mental breakdown or had been drugged and gotten lost."

I start laughing hysterically.  Why is that? "Because, one she's naked. Two she showed up at my house who she doesn't know."  I start improvising a scenario while I am laughing.  She found you on the internet and liked you. He says "That makes a little more sense but she showed up naked, I think I'd worry about how she ended up that way at my house."  

"Ok, she wasn't naked, she knocks at the door, you open it, she comes in and she strips down and throws herself at you." He tells me it is still an unbelievable scenario.  I am laughing so hard that my eyes are watering and coughing so I sound possibly like a dying cat. He just tells me I am his one and only as I am still trying to calm my laughter down. 

If you don't think this is funny, perhaps I am not telling it right, or maybe it was just a lot funnier in person. 

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

You MUST log onto Facebook!

I have instituted a seeminly strange rule in our house.  HistoryBoy must spend at least 10 minutes on social media.  Yes, you read that right.  He HAS to.  Someone said to me OMG! Why?  Isn't he addicted to it already? No, not really...

As with most children with ADHD and Asperger's, he has a love/affinity for all things technology BUT, as in real life, he is not social within its confines.  He will watch YouTube video after YouTube video about whatever catches his fancy or read article after article on his current obsession, but he does not interact with others. (Except for Skype once in a while with HyperGirl...) 

Now he has social accounts.  He asked my permission and I helped him set them up because he really wanted them.  He honestly rarely uses them. I think he wanted them simply because other kids his age had them and would talk about them. 



SO, I am making it mandatory that he checks in with his friends on Facebook (or whichever social media he prefers... NON YouTube) everyday for at least 10 minutes. (Think about it, that's not really a lot!)  I want him to interact, laugh, connect, and realize that the Internet is a place he can explore (within the confines of the parental controls I provide) and I will help guide him to hopefully help make his day to day interactions easier.



Before you say, that interacting in real life is not the same, realize that I know that, but he needs to be guided in these social worlds, both real and online.  If he can navigate one, it is my job to help him use those skills to learn to navigate the other.  Right now, as he is just finding his legs in the real world, he can't be unaware of social media. He would stand out more by NOT knowing how these sites work. He knows their names but he needs to be aware, be able to interact and successfully navigate all the murky waters that lie ahead for him. This is one more tool he needs in his belt to do that.