He has begged for years for a video game. Sorry, a real video game(Nintendo or Wii) probably won't happen for a while, but he and D came up with a deal to get him a Didj last spring. Start up cost (game contraption and one cartridge) was $100. He saved for half and we paid the other half of start up; after that he was on his own for every $30 cartridge. He really wanted it so used a bunch of allowance and birthday money to get it. And he played for his allotted screen time for the first 3 days in a row and then he forgot for a while and then found he was bored with it. He got a couple new cartridges during the summer, but quickly got frustrated or bored with those too. He has now had it for 3 and a half months and the most he played it was on the plane to Hawaii. In the past couple of weeks he finally voiced for himself what had been warned before he wasted a bunch of money on the game...... he can play interesting games online for free and always do something new instead of the same games over and over. What he hasn't realized yet is that for the $100 he blew on the Didj he could've had four super deluxe light up and make sounds light sabers for the Star Wars gang that roams our neighborhood after school every day; if he figures that out he is really going to kick himself for not getting the light sabers.
love and hugs and some lessons you just have to learn for yourself, but with each lesson E learns he does seem connect more to the fact that we warned him what would happen... now to get him to listen before the mistake happens,
B
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