Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Don't Touch the Screen!

When I'm at the laptop and Gerren touches the screen, I gently guide her hand away or say, "Don't touch the screen".

Sometimes she removes her hand, and sometime she protests.

Today as she was watching her baby cousin toddle on a video we'd just received, she placed her full hand on the image. At first I thought she was pushing him away or trying to cover the image so I couldn't see it.

Then she said, "How do we get Quentin through our home?"

Just like when we read books and she cried because she couldn't go swimming in the pool, or hold the baby in the book.

I responded, "He's here now. Whenever you see him or think of him, he's here. And when we go visit and you play with him, he's with you in a different way."

She watched the 39 second clip over and over with her hand gently touching the screen. Simply connected.