Passwords

Being in a family with such huge differences in ages between siblings and being in special education at school has meant that Jazz spends most of her time with adults and feeling like she has a thousand parents watching her constantly.   As you can imagine, this leads her to feeling like she has no privacy and hears "No" all day long.  And so for the last few Christmases the big requests to Santa are toys that include passwords in order to access them. 

For example, the "Monster High iCoffin" was last year's choice.  It has little video games on it and pretend text messages.  Fulfilling her other desire, which is a phone.

This year it was a "Password Journal" that opens when you give a verbal password that you get to set, so it has to be your voice that opens it not just the word.  Inside is a simple journal to write in, but it is protected by the verbal password system.

The only problem with these types of toys are the very fact that they have passwords involved.

Jazz can never remember her passwords.  Mostly due to the fact that she changes them constantly so they are a secret from all the adults around her.  Since the adults around her serve as the missing parts in her brain, when we don't know what her password is, it is a lost cause when it comes to reopening a toy.  Within an hour of getting one of these types of toys, we are all scrambling to read directions and find the reset button.  Thank God they have all had re-set buttons so far.

While the progresses that Jazz has made through out her life since her infancy have been great and beyond what anyone predicted, there are still these moments when we realize she still has many areas that are a struggle for her.  There are many reasons why she has adults with her at all times including memory problems like with the password toys, inappropriate use of toys/tools such as scissors, and many more related to being extremely impulsive.  These moments help us remember why we all still work as hard as we do for her.

Much Love!