46 minutes and 12 seconds...

Page 1 of 1 [ 12 posts ]

Previous topic | Next topic

Jimbeaux
Toucan
Toucan

Joined: 24 Nov 2008
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Posts: 282

25 Dec 2009, 9:52 am

...between the start of opening the plethora of presents until "I HAVE NOTHING TO DO!! ! I'M BORED!! !"

sinsboldly
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Gender: Female
Posts: 13,488
Location: Bandon-by-the-Sea, Oregon

25 Dec 2009, 10:09 am

Wow. Just wow. Are you talking about your kids?

later edit: Oh, yes, I see you are, I didn't realize it was Parent's Discussion, I just followed the topic from the front page.

That must be a real let down after working so hard to assemble all those prezzies and making sure each precious gift was exactly what they would love and adore and some how lose the vibe in a frenzy of wrapping paper and the endorphin charge of 'next!'

_________________
Alis volat propriis
State Motto of Oregon

Jimbeaux
Toucan
Toucan

Joined: 24 Nov 2008
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Posts: 282

25 Dec 2009, 11:07 am

Nah. Just an observation. . Not upset or anything.

DenvrDave
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 17 Sep 2009
Age: 61
Gender: Male
Posts: 790
Location: Where seldom is heard a discouraging word

25 Dec 2009, 11:28 am

Yeah, I'd pretty much call that X-mas as usual :roll:

CRD
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 6 Jun 2009
Age: 49
Gender: Female
Posts: 704

25 Dec 2009, 12:28 pm

Jake got to what he wanted the very most and stopped to stare in wonder. He was so happy . It took awhile to get him to open the rest. All and all I think we had a good christmas I hope you all have a happy day as well.

Last edited by CRD on 25 Dec 2009, 9:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Francis
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 6 Jul 2009
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Posts: 522

25 Dec 2009, 2:14 pm

46 minutes sounds about right for my daughter. She gets so over stimulated that there is no where to go but down.

My son on the other hand, you'd better allocate 3 or so hours to just unwrap the presents. First you must study the wrapping paper very intently to get every detail of it. Then once you got the wrapping paper down, you can tear it open. Then you study the picture on the package, making sure you get every single detail. Then you open the package and take the toy out and look at it. (as a parent at this part you are crossing your fingers that the picture on the package matches the actual product exactly. If not, a parental conversation is needed.) Repeat for the next present. Then once done with all, the playing time starts.

My daughter was done unwrapping when my son was on present number two.

Marcia
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Apr 2008
Age: 58
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,148

26 Dec 2009, 4:18 pm

I didn't manage to time how long it took for my son to fly his new remote control helicopter into the wall and break it, but it was probably about 15 seconds! :roll:

EaglesSayMeow
Snowy Owl

Joined: 1 Nov 2009
Gender: Female
Posts: 169
Location: Earth. Hong Kong or the US, probably.

27 Dec 2009, 10:15 pm

Francis wrote:

Your son sounds like me. My parents, etc, are always trying to speed my unwrapping of presents up. Very annoying when I get my "big" present first, the one I really want, and could probably spend an hour studying it, but they're just like "more, more, more"

DW_a_mom
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 22 Feb 2008
Gender: Female
Posts: 13,689
Location: Northern California

27 Dec 2009, 11:05 pm

I think my son has been re-programmed to say "I'm bored" as an automatic response. Yeah, its funny ... when its not annoying

I didn't hear that Christmas day, however, because - bless them - my sister and my husband both agreed to play Dungeons and Dragons and allow my son to test out all his new D&D stuff. 4 hours. Wow.

My daugther and brother-in-law had a grand ol' time with the Wii, and I got to read my new book

Lovely day.

_________________
Mom to an amazing young adult AS son, plus an also amazing non-AS daughter. Most likely part of the "Broader Autism Phenotype" (some traits).

Tracker
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 16 Jun 2008
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Posts: 933
Location: Behind your mineral line

28 Dec 2009, 7:22 am

Oooo, D+D stuff.

Lucky guy, what did you get him?

DW_a_mom
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 22 Feb 2008
Gender: Female
Posts: 13,689
Location: Northern California

28 Dec 2009, 12:41 pm

Tracker wrote:

Oooo, D+D stuff.

Lucky guy, what did you get him?

His haul from everyone included a couple of sets of tiles, Players Handbook 2 (he had 1), Monster Manual, Dungeon Master's Manual, his own dice set, and a bunch of mini-figures. He's just starting

_________________
Mom to an amazing young adult AS son, plus an also amazing non-AS daughter. Most likely part of the "Broader Autism Phenotype" (some traits).

2ukenkerl
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 19 Jul 2007
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,277

28 Dec 2009, 11:21 pm

Francis wrote:

;;;
Then you study the picture on the package, making sure you get every single detail. Then you open the package and take the toy out and look at it. (as a parent at this part you are crossing your fingers that the picture on the package matches the actual product exactly. If not, a parental conversation is needed.)

I will NEVER forget a WSJ article that I read about 13+ years ago. It spoke of how some kids complained that the pasta they got(I believe it was francoamerican) had the wrong type of dinosaur in it. The company got tyranosaurus and allosaurus rex's mixed up!

Maybe the kids were autistic. The difference was apparently in the type of talons!

Page 1 of 1 [ 12 posts ]

Jump to:

46 minutes and 12 seconds... Post Reply New Topic

46 minutes and 12 seconds...