Ok, is there such thing as a button pushing or electronics addiction. Maybe we could send Tetyana to Button Pushing Anonymous? It is the craziest thing! She cannot avoid pushing buttons on the remote control, TV, telephone, house alarm..etc. I can tell her not to touch and no kidding, 5 seconds later she is pushing a button. It really is on my nerves.
The telephone is still a major thing in her life. We still have our home phone unplugged unless we want to use it because she takes the phone and pushes all of the buttons or when it rings, she still wants to answer it. I have to carry my cell phone on my body or she goes crazy when it rings. You should see how she reacts when we decide not to take the call. It is like she knows the most important person is calling us and she can't figure out why we aren't answering it. Sometimes you can't chat at the grocery store with two kids in tow trying to fill up your basket!
So am I missing something here? Any other newly AP's having this problem?
Friday, June 13, 2008
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Maddie doesn't quite have THAT much interest in phones, but anytime one rings she runs up near it (she can't reach it! ) and says, 'allo, allo!'
We had a button-addicted kid, but not to that extreme. Katrina was obsessed with the buttons on the clock radio and both Alena and Katrina LOVED the bathroom light switch in our hotel room in Moscow. Once home, though, those obsessions stopped, thank goodness. They never had access to the remote for the TV or our cell phones, etc., and they still don't three years later. It's just not an option to play with those things. It was pretty much 'out of sight, out of mind' for them from day one and still is. They were (and still are) curious little girls, but knew their, or rather, our limits. Again, thank goodness!
~Patti
We had a button-addicted kid, but not to that extreme. Katrina was obsessed with the buttons on the clock radio and both Alena and Katrina LOVED the bathroom light switch in our hotel room in Moscow. Once home, though, those obsessions stopped, thank goodness. They never had access to the remote for the TV or our cell phones, etc., and they still don't three years later. It's just not an option to play with those things. It was pretty much 'out of sight, out of mind' for them from day one and still is. They were (and still are) curious little girls, but knew their, or rather, our limits. Again, thank goodness!
~Patti
Ours was light switches for the first few months home. The light switches were higher on the walls in the orphanage, and were apparently a big no-no, so when we got home it was like a party for him! It seemed like such a minor thing at first. But we finally had to start "disciplining" him when he was specifically told not to switch it off/on again and he did. Usually it meant sitting on his bed for a few minutes, but it eventually sunk in. He is quick to turn off the lights as we leave the room now, but only once instead of the on-off-on-off-on-off we got for a while!
Our boys aren't obsessed (unless you're talking about our little one and pushing emotional buttons--that he is obsessed with) but they both still LOVE to push real buttons...but then again, so does their dad. :-) Our little guy's favorite job is starting the dishwasher, which thankfully he only does at appropriate times. They've gotten much better about it over the last nearly year, though. Now if I could just get them to shut the doors and turn off the lights, we'd have a small miracle on our hands!
I can't say that we have that issue, but we certainly have others.
She must have a future in some fancy high-tech job with lots of buttons to be in charge of! :)
Halle Grace loves to find anything gooey and put it on her face like it's make-up...candy, vaseline, nail polish, mud, axel grease, etc.
Today, I walked in the bathroom and found her "fixing" her hair with big palmfuls of conditioner.
Fun.
We have a problem with touching everything. Not just buttons. We were checking out at the self serve register at Home Depot. MY husband was signing the CC screen when Karina pushed something on the screen! It beeped, but at least it didn't change anything.
I tell her all the time, don't touch, but it doesn't do any good. I think it's something developmental that they missed out on. They are curious and learning, but it can DRIVE YOU CRAZY!
Yes, the button pushing can work a nerve! Lee was an extreme button pusher for about the first 6 months. He reset all of my camera settings, messed up the remote settings, set clock alarms for all hours of the night, tried to use our cell phones...it just seemed to go on forever.
He is still bad about it and I can tell him 50 times not to touch a button unless it is on a toy, but just today he restarted our dishwasher right after it had finished running. (He also tried to mess with the central air controls in the science center a couple of weeks ago.)
It has gotten better and not at all the obsession it was, but I think he is still more of a "pusher" than the average 5 1/2 year old.
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