Guest guest Posted October 5, 2000 Report Share Posted October 5, 2000 In a message dated 10/5/00 2:49:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Ltb3105@... writes: << This is interesting.........mostly all of us have answered back that our kids are NOT interested in toys....what is up with that, do you guys have any comments?? >> , I know for Seth, he doesn't know what to do with anything. You know, like how to pretend. He loves the *work jobs* at school. Stacking, pushing things in and things like that. Other things though, if it doesn't dangle or spin, he seems lost. Even rolling a ball back and forth with him, if I make it fun, he walks away. If we treat it like a job to do, he will sit for almost an hour and just do his job of rolling and catching. No laughing or doing anything but rolling and catching allowed, straight faced. Seth will laugh and actually has a good sense of humor for a little guy when we are just playing with each other, no toys involved. Very strange huh? Gail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 5, 2000 Report Share Posted October 5, 2000 Both my boys seem to be lacking imaginative play skills,Colin did play with dolls,bathing ,dressing etc pushed cars but he has never seem the point of things like lego and jigsaws, likes musical toys and he loves tracks he makes elaborate track systems,but never pushes the train on them I think he likes the patterns,I bought a very expensive musical mat once which they both had no interest in at all,we have an unused trampoline,bikes that they can both ride but never do,a scooter that thinks should be sat on and scooted.Now Colin is older ha has music tapes and videos,I need to take out shares in a battery factory, likes electric organs he mostly plays the demo tunes,both like computer games,Colin plays them likes to watch them,Colin can copy the American accents on Sesame street well but we do sometimes have problems understanding them initially also most of the electronic toys have american accents.they are both very heavy handed with toys,Colin managed to break a Tonka truck Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 5, 2000 Report Share Posted October 5, 2000 , I know, this is so strange! Nothing keeps Marks interest more than 2 minutes. We all commented about it at the IEP yesterday. Jeannie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 5, 2000 Report Share Posted October 5, 2000 i dont know why, but its pretty common, even our recent rotation of psych docs have aske simialr questions about toys, they must be on to that too, huh, wierd, docs actually in sinc with the kids more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 5, 2000 Report Share Posted October 5, 2000 yes or kids are tough!!! nathan use to break our doors all the time it was awful!!! he would even rip the door off the hinges wreking the frame when having a tantrum, and often opening and slamming them over and over, he would even break many different types of locks we tried, we couldnt even lock our front door anymore he had the door knob soo bent out of shape from tantrums when mommy and daddy left for work or out, thank god he out grew that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 5, 2000 Report Share Posted October 5, 2000 In a message dated 10/5/00 5:09:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, KVanRyzin@... writes: << Gail, My foster son used to be that way with toys. He would do a task but not play. We could do silly songs and hiding type games that he thought we fun but give him a toy and he was lost. Actually give him a toy and it would come right back at you. After 2 years of really hard work he finally is playing with some toys, still limited scenarios and must be lead by someone else but, It is really nice to see him actually enjoy it. Karyn >> That's great Karyn! I know Seth will be at that point someday too. :-) Boy, I took a lot for granted with my other kids! LOL Gail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2000 Report Share Posted October 6, 2000 is just starting to play with toys. I remember long before the autism diagnosis having to teach him how to pretend. He really wanted a kitchen, so one Christmas I bought him the All-in-One kitchen and a bunch of stuff to go with it. He had no idea how to play with it. This was about the same time that I had started floor time without really knowing it was a method. I would get in his world for a while, just imitating whatever he did, until he realized I was imitating him, then I would do something for him to imitate me. It worked with the kitchen, and he fed all his dolls, but it wouldn't cross over into anything else. Now he's starting to play with his cars a bit, and likes to pretend he's calling Star Trek on his communicator (from Edge Company, looks just like a real one with the sounds). But I agree about the being rich if we hadn't bought all the toys. I think I have all the Beetleborgs, Rugrats, and Toy Story stuff. I'm saving it for . Loriann who just figured out that my older version of Microsoft Outlook Express doesn't allow you to put in sig lines....have to get the updates from Microsoft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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