When My Daughter with Down Syndrome Tried to Charge the Fishing Game

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[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I don’t know if you remember my post about “Down syndrome Angels,” – I wrote it a long time ago, but in it, I was surprised to meet a guy with Down syndrome who knew how to use my iPhone better than I did. And I’m no slouch with the iPhone.

Moxie’s growing up to be the same as that guy.

She’s 6 and she knows how to get into the settings on iPads and configure the WiFi.

This is a problem for us because as we live off the grid and receive internet through satellite, we have a very limited data supply and can’t stream. What we usually do now is download a few episodes of Sofia the First from Netflix (you can download some episodes now from Netflix – did you know that?!) before 8am, when our data doesn’t count. But sometimes Moxie wants to watch something else, and will work out the passwords for the Kindle or an iPad, and then head over to Settings and get things going – and then use up our data supply for the month, streaming!

Anyway.

She tried this Fishing Game recently at a friend’s house and loved it. I bought it for her, she found it in the closet, opened it while all the rest of us were busy watching Star Trek. She wanted to play with it, and the fish heads were not opening or closing, like she remembered them doing when she played at her friend’s house, so what did she do?

Right.

She brought it over to the charging station and tried to connect it with a cable.

In other words, she did the most sensible thing that a kid in this day and age, used to iPads and Kindles as they are, would do.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”alert-danger” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-heart”]Never, ever, EVER underestimate your kid with Down syndrome.

Always presume competence.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=”turquoise” border_width=”6″][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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