computer games....

Here i am awake at 3:30am again due to this blasted computer....

i allowed mikey to play his game at midday yesterday after a morning constant requests to play the 'uter'.
mikey played for 2 hours - every now and then he'd click the wrong thing and i'd have to come and fix it...
then a friend called and i wanted to use the computer again and all hell broke loose... thankfully i was off the phone and noone was able to hear the meltdown which followed me taking use of my own PC again.

Adam came home and before i knew it, the playschool site was back up and on... then dinner time hit 10 minutes later and we needed the chair from the PC desk... for the next hour mikey begged to have the chair put back.

Mikey didn't have use of the PC for the rest of the night and fell asleep on the couch with Adam only to wake up at 3am yet again wanting to play.

I was contemplating a playstation or some kind of game, but now i wont... with the difficulty we had getting mikey to dinner and these 3am wake ups, he will not be given any electronic device until he's older and able to understand boundaries... i think at the end of the day he's just still too immature mentally to realise that limitations apply and that he has to obey these - which is SOOO frustrating and very hard to remember when he's losing the plot.

the worst part is.... if he wasn't autistic... but was simply mentally delayed, he'd understand!
but theres that blasted break in comprehension going on in his little head which creates so many problems with every day tasks.

terrible two's, a 4yo body and autism.... thank you heavenly father.