Watchin' the clock

A couple of weeks ago I bought Karston a watch. The reason is that we wanted to be able to set the alarm so that he can better know how to keep to his own schedule.

It has worked nicely. Everytime it goes off he knows to go to the bathroom and I set it again for the next time. As long as I am around to set the watch he does very well. Our next step is to teach him how to set the watch and then go on his own. He is growing up fast and taking so much more responsibility for himself. I am so proud of him. It is so nice to finally be able to see that one day he will be able to completely care for himself and not have to rely only on mom and dad. We now set his watch for his cath. every two hours and also for his "potty meds" that he does for 30 min. daily. This couldn't have come at a better time, since I am now in Florida trying to help out with my dad (has been in hospital with kidney problems and Cancer of the colon.) I am not always the adult athority with him and the watchis helping other family memebers to be able to also care for him.

The watch has helped in other ways too. When he first got the watch he was still in school. I got a note home from his teacher saying that she was really pleased with how well his watch has helped him to stay on task with his classroom assignments. When I asked Karston about this he told me that he timed himself to see how long it would take him to do the work. His watch also has a stop watch on it and he is loving that feature of it.

His younger brother also got a similar watch, and is loving that he not only has what his brother has but that he is also able to check the time. He constantly wants to know what time we will be leaving here, or what time will be going there, or what time will be doing this or what time will we be... etc. I am proud of both of my little buddies for growing up but now that we are timing the whole growing up process I hope that it slows down and they are not teenagers before I am ready!