The thing we are asking the extended ecosystem :-) to focus on is to share their emotional experiences in their life (or as they remember me - DD) as they grew up, apart from giving him some simple academic, but real life problems.
My dad has gotten onto a nice cadence with DS - sending him mail once a week - it has been a wildly successful experiment. DS actually spends time with his mail now - opens a sheet of paper, makes key points from my dad's email and responds to that. My dad's email loosely has three parts, apart from the current status of his life - the sections being (1) sharing his life experience (2) asking an unknown question, so that DS needs to use google or otherwise to find answer and (3) giving him a simple math problem...
Here is one such example of the email:
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2. When I was a young boy studying in
the 10th standard I got poor marks in Algebra test and when the paper was give
to me I got 0 out of 25 but in my geometry paper I got 24 out of 25. So I
got 24 out of 50 which is a pass mark. I did not tell my father about
this as I thought he will get angry and scold me. I was telling lies that
the marks did not come out and finally on a day he told me to get the marks on
the next day or he will come to the school and find out the matter. So on
the next day I told me but to my surprise he did not scold me but told me to do
better in may next examination. From that day onwards I decided not to
tell lies to my parents or to any other person.
3. Since you are fond of strawberry I will give a sum on that: You go to a shop to buy some strawberries and shopkeeper tells you that the price of one packet is. 8.50 dollars. Being satisfied with the price you bought 5 packets for which you have given a 50 dollar note. He was impressed by you and gave a discount and paid back one 10 dollar back. How much profit you had made. ?
3. Since you are fond of strawberry I will give a sum on that: You go to a shop to buy some strawberries and shopkeeper tells you that the price of one packet is. 8.50 dollars. Being satisfied with the price you bought 5 packets for which you have given a 50 dollar note. He was impressed by you and gave a discount and paid back one 10 dollar back. How much profit you had made. ?
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The interesting thing about #2 above is that it serves two purpose - one is that to say everyone is fallible and prone to make mistakes, which is a big thing for DS (since he is loathe to make mistakes and that has been a previous inhibitor in learning) and secondly teaches some of emotions.
Even some of my friends have been sending emails to DS. The unintended consequences of this has been, the DS's emails to his friends are much more cogent and tends to be a lot more normal.
Well, we will take all the help we can get and we are thankful, that we are getting so much help !
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