Pop Tarts are a main staple for J. His class has breakfast together every morning and try as I might to change his menu we always end up with Pop Tarts… They have Pop Tarts with jokes and trivia questions now– what a great social interaction tool for my little guy! Every morning he tells a new joke and gets the desired response so he brings back the jokes from previous days and his classmates.
J likes white food– almost exclusively. He likes yogurt but it has to be the Trix brand. He likes string cheese but won’t even try other white cheeses… it’s a challenge.
A couple of weeks ago he stayed over with my parents and asked for spaghetti with butter. We don’t know where he got that idea since it’s not something we eat at home. My mom decided to make pancakes instead since he will always eat those but I tried spaghetti and butter a few days later and the response was a very adamant “I’d rather die!” (I choked back the laughter as best as I could…) ”Great sentence but I don’t think it’ll kill you!”)
Anything can be used to benefit social and verbal skills if you look for it… so, I’d rather J not be hooked on sugar with white flour but, at least they give him a jumping off point for a social interaction.
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what a clever joke……..one of the other personalities I share a body with, is named Ivan!
He liked the joke as well……..
The Integral
See, if only PopTarts could make a commercial of this…”PopTarts, teaching children the world over social skills and how to make friends.” Think how effective that would be for a marketing strategy! LOL! Seriously, though, love the comraderie of sharing the meal and sharing jokes. Very cool.
That’s so funny! My husband said the same thing– they should market PopTarts as an educational tool!
Stopping by your blog for the first time…my son has autism and Pop Tarts are one of the only foods he’ll eat right now. We still have to reinforce them with something else, so I feel like a SUPER mom feeding him a strawberry frosted pop tart in the morning chased with Skittles or Cheetos!
Whatever works, right? I keep telling myself that variety is what really matters… We are a Cheetos family too! Hey– at least it’s not white food!
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you’ll come back soon!
Hi, I just bumped into your blogs and finished reading your pages about the book “Ten things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew” – I have a 6 almost 7 yr old boy “M”, and M has been autistic now for about 4 yrs but we didn’t know it until only a few months ago when he was dignosed, before that it was thought to be ADHD, and before that we thought he was just misbehaving for the fun of it, or just refused to listen to us, being yelled at all the time (mainly from dad) but I am guilty for some of it also… I have big problems getting adjusted to it, reading your blogs really helped me understand a bit more, and I certainly will go and buy the book asap, I believe that it would help my husband and myself understand a lot more.
M has been on medications for the ADHD diagnosis with the $30 a month medications we could do, but I still was not happy with M’s behavior, blinking constantly as if trying to clarify his vision, but once off the meds, he would nolonger blink like he was, now he’s been diagnosed with Autism and the med’s price hiked up to $135 a month, and it’s hard to afford, I have not been able to buy them yet, and there are no generic brands out there yet for Adderall XR, there are alternatives: Ritalin LA and Dexedine Spansule, which are alittle cheaper, so now I am waiting to see his Doctor to see about getting his Rx changed.
Thanks for all you’ve written, I enjoy reading it all.
Bless you and your little “J”