A-One played his brain training exercises Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. On several days he played in his pyjamas at the eleventh hour, knowing now that if he waits until after midnight, it doesn't count for that day.
- His best score for Speed was on Tuesday, achieving his highest yet, coming in at 56.2nd percentile. Since then he's been steady at 54.4th percentile, with a slight drop on Friday to 54.1st percentile.
- He has also been steady on Memory at 47.8th percentile with working memory played most days, rising to 48.8th percentile on Friday.
- Very few Attention games were offered this last week, so A-One has been steady there too at 33.4th percentile.
- Of late his program seems to have been exercising mainly his Flexibility, particularly brain shift, which has seen a good improvement last week, rising to 28.2nd percentile. I'm hoping these exercises will help him with his rigidity - in helping formulate options when considering courses of action.
- No change in problem solving (only a couple of games last week), at 9.1st percentile.
- His overall percentile is now 31.2nd percentile - still his highest yet.
A-One and I reviewed his results each day, and if information processing and working memory were not offered, I suggested additional games. However with my own busy-ness I did not push it, and A-One did not play any additional games last week.
Nevertheless on Friday I felt like celebrating, so on Friday morning I raised the idea of going out for a low key dinner that night. A-One seemed open to the idea. I reminded him that he'd need to be ready by 6:30pm so that we could pick up his sister from work on the way.
I was very pleased to see him stop playing WOW at 5pm, with no prompting, to have a shower. At about 5:30pm he came downstairs wrapped in a towel to check with me again about the leaving time. I told him that he needed to be ready by 6:30pm in case his sister rang for an early pickup, as she sometimes does, but that if she doesn't ring, we'd be leaving at 6:45pm. He then went back upstairs.
At 6:45pm he was still in the bathroom.
Mum: We have to leave now A-One. Your sister has just called too.
A-One: I'll only be a couple of minutes.
Mum: But we have to leave now - as I told you this morning. You've had all that notice!
A-One: I won't be long.
At 6:53pm:
Mum: A-One, we have to leave!
A-One: Okay. I'll only be a couple of minutes.
Mum: We have to go!
At 6:55pm, he came out of the bathroom looking very smart - he had shaved and put on nice clothes. I was pleased that he had taken care with his appearance, but I was also very conscious that his (younger) sister was waiting on a city street. At night. On her own.
Mum: I was really looking forward to being able to tell you what a great job you did being ready on time. You stopped playing WOW at 5 o'clock which was great, but then you were still almost half an hour late!
A-One: If you must know, I was cutting my nails. I've only done one hand.
(A-One's beard and nails get quite long when he plays WOW for weeks on end.)
Mum: Well, that's great too that you want to spruce up for going out - you look very handsome - but if you need more time to do that, then you need to start earlier. You might say sorry to your sister for being late.
He didn't say sorry when we picked up his sister, but we did have a lovely meal. With a little encouragement he tried something new to eat - and he finished it all before the rest of us, saying that's what he'll have every time he comes here!
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