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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 330217" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Another important point in favour of the DS lite - compatibility with husband's DS. I believe the DSi won't allow a lot of the older games. I could be wrong.</p><p></p><p>BUT - in our family, we have the older DS. Predating the DS lite. And using that, difficult child 3 has been able to access the internet just about everywhere. It was rather amusing about 18 months ago at school, difficult child 3 was playing with his DS while waiting for his computing studies teacher to arrive for a personal lesson. Teacher arrived, difficult child 3 asked, "What's the school computer network password again?" and teacher automatically told him. Then said, "Hang on- where's your computer?"</p><p>difficult child 3 said, "Don't need one. I'm now online - thank you - using the DS."</p><p>Teacher said, "How did you do that? I didn't know you could do that!" [some computer teacher!]</p><p>So difficult child 3 showed him how he could go online and surf the net using the school's network to piggyback.</p><p></p><p>And for several years before, from the time we got the dS for him, we'd be driving along the highway through the city and suburbs and difficult child 3 would say, "There's a network I can use. There's another one..." and if we were stuck in traffic and the car not moving, he often had his pick of multiple networks to go online with. Businesses these days are more careful about password protection, but a lot of coffee shops here advertise "free WiFi". You think, that's just for customers. But difficult child 3 would sit outside and surf the net for free. Or in the mall when McDonalds had free WiFi, difficult child 3 found it was more peaceful to sit on the floor above, which was outside the supermarket where we mostly do our grocery shopping. The WiFi signal access expands in a sphere from the centre and difficult child 3 would sit right above the store for a strong, free signal.</p><p></p><p>And this is with a very old, first-run DS. </p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 has hhis DS surgically attached. At least that is how it seems. So we will be out in public and if he sees another kid playing, difficult child 3 will approach the other kid and instigate a joint game. When we took mother in law to the hospital just after Christmas, there was a younger kid in the waiting room with his mother and sister (little sis was the patient) and difficult child 3 & the boy were soon playing, deeply engrossed. When the mother and little girl were called in by the doctor, she said to her son, "Stay here, we won't be long," and left him there playing games across the room with difficult child 3.</p><p>We've been on long train trips - same story. It's actually been quite good for difficult child 3's social skills, although I would prefer to be able to monitor his online gaming. However, my biggest concern is his hamfistedness with social skills, not that he is likely to be led astray or recruited by a pedophile. We talk to him about these risks and if there were any approach for a personal meeting, difficult child 3 would tell us. But that is one of the positive side effects of his Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). He's getting too old to be of interest t a pedophile anyway. Plus I wouldn't want to be in their shoes if they tried!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 330217, member: 1991"] Another important point in favour of the DS lite - compatibility with husband's DS. I believe the DSi won't allow a lot of the older games. I could be wrong. BUT - in our family, we have the older DS. Predating the DS lite. And using that, difficult child 3 has been able to access the internet just about everywhere. It was rather amusing about 18 months ago at school, difficult child 3 was playing with his DS while waiting for his computing studies teacher to arrive for a personal lesson. Teacher arrived, difficult child 3 asked, "What's the school computer network password again?" and teacher automatically told him. Then said, "Hang on- where's your computer?" difficult child 3 said, "Don't need one. I'm now online - thank you - using the DS." Teacher said, "How did you do that? I didn't know you could do that!" [some computer teacher!] So difficult child 3 showed him how he could go online and surf the net using the school's network to piggyback. And for several years before, from the time we got the dS for him, we'd be driving along the highway through the city and suburbs and difficult child 3 would say, "There's a network I can use. There's another one..." and if we were stuck in traffic and the car not moving, he often had his pick of multiple networks to go online with. Businesses these days are more careful about password protection, but a lot of coffee shops here advertise "free WiFi". You think, that's just for customers. But difficult child 3 would sit outside and surf the net for free. Or in the mall when McDonalds had free WiFi, difficult child 3 found it was more peaceful to sit on the floor above, which was outside the supermarket where we mostly do our grocery shopping. The WiFi signal access expands in a sphere from the centre and difficult child 3 would sit right above the store for a strong, free signal. And this is with a very old, first-run DS. difficult child 3 has hhis DS surgically attached. At least that is how it seems. So we will be out in public and if he sees another kid playing, difficult child 3 will approach the other kid and instigate a joint game. When we took mother in law to the hospital just after Christmas, there was a younger kid in the waiting room with his mother and sister (little sis was the patient) and difficult child 3 & the boy were soon playing, deeply engrossed. When the mother and little girl were called in by the doctor, she said to her son, "Stay here, we won't be long," and left him there playing games across the room with difficult child 3. We've been on long train trips - same story. It's actually been quite good for difficult child 3's social skills, although I would prefer to be able to monitor his online gaming. However, my biggest concern is his hamfistedness with social skills, not that he is likely to be led astray or recruited by a pedophile. We talk to him about these risks and if there were any approach for a personal meeting, difficult child 3 would tell us. But that is one of the positive side effects of his Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). He's getting too old to be of interest t a pedophile anyway. Plus I wouldn't want to be in their shoes if they tried! Marg [/QUOTE]
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