Day 23 – Baby Girl loves her iPad.
She got one for Christmas several years ago after a couple years of her
wanting to hold our phones all the time. Before she was 1 she could swipe on the baby
apps we had loaded. She really only got
to do it when we went out to eat or needed her occupied out in public. When she almost sent a crazy picture and text
to my boss I knew it was time to do something. After she got her own ipack (as she called it
for quite a while) she was obsessed with it.
It went everywhere she went even though she didn’t always have to be using
it – it was part of her routine and routines are life for her. As she has gotten older it is back to being
something she uses but mostly when she needs some alone time. She has some learning games, some games just
for fun and watches videos and movies over and over again. Don’t worry – I got all guiltified when we
had to take her for an eye exam earlier this year and were told by the
professional that technology was ruining children’s eyesight. Her eyes are perfect, as is the condition of
her iPad due to an apparently indestructible case. The use of it, right or wrong, has afforded
me dinner from time to time, car rides where I did not want to rip my hair out
by the root, a nap here and there, and some peace in times of turmoil.
#30facesofautism
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