365:293 Get Your Math On

I have a love/hate relationship with the ipad. We go through fits and spurts of letting Addison play with and without setting time limits. I worry that too much ipad will kill too many brain cells, squash creativity, independent thinking and hinder imagination. My husband and I do our best to keep things balanced but sometimes, on those busy days, balance just seems to slip away.  It surprises me though, how when left to his own devices, he will grow tired of his favorite racing game and choose to work on short vowel sounds and building words and most of all - math. The other day, he was counting out loud to himself on the couch and I went over to see what he was doing. This is what I found. He was making math problems for himself and solving them (note the backwards 7!). Math has never been my strong suit but since Addison's diagnosis, I speak Math like I have never spoken it before. I am always uttering numbers and calculating and solving problems. I was convinced I would kill my son when he was first diagnosed and the cold reality of the number crunching necessary to manage this disease was made clear. Almost 4 years later, the math problems I can now figure out in my head has improved greatly!  Surely this has to influence Addison? Maybe it isn't diabetes at all. Maybe it is just a natural inclination towards mathematics inherited from his Papa. Who knows! All I know is that there is a lot of number speak in our house and Addison seems to have glommed onto it.