Christmas gift ideas for my Aspie son~

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wow I never thought buying Ashton christmas gifts would be so hard, he loves

trucks and trucks and well TRUCKS...However his new passion or rather obsession

is the computer he is 7 and can seriously spend hours upon hours on it which at

first was a blessing as it was a great reward for him as well as a fabulous

distraction while dealing with my other 5 boys...HOWEVER he is not learning

anything as well as now he has become totally aggressive toward it and wants to

literally be on it all the time, and after an hour of being on it I ask for it

and he has a major meltdown...He will wander through the house obsessing over

the computer and when I tell him to play trucks he says, " I dont want to " or

ther is nothing to do with my trucks he has totally turned his attention

strictly to the computer.

My youngest son had a Vsmile and played it nonstop, however I could never get

ashton into anything like this as I tried so hard because of the education

value. We had 3 ds handhelds and he broke every one of them (his brothers)

because he gets super frustrated with the games and ends up breaking the hinges

so we have to limit things that are fragile and easily broken....So to all of

the parents of aspies out there any good ideas for christmas gifts aside from

him staring at the computer all day?? something educational yet fun???

Thank you