Hello. Is It Me You Are Looking For?

It is hard to have a reward/discipline system for someone who is 26 but has the mental age of about 8. One reward we have found that works great for her is the ability to make a phone call if she has a good day. We can also threaten to take the phone call away from her if she is misbehaving.

When Kate was in the youth group at our church, Cornerstone, I solicited the group and asked if she could call any of them as a reward. They were very eager to help me and we had five to six give me their numbers. Now that the youth group members are adults, some have married and the spouses will take Kate’s call – Love is so good! So she has someone to call every weekday still!

My sister was in town visiting and we were all sitting in the living room having a nice conversation. Kate was in the kitchen and asked to make her phone call to Tony. I dialed the number and went back to living room. We could hear her talking and the conversation was very entertaining due to the different inflections and animations we could hear in her conversation. This went over for about three minutes then we heard her say good-bye and hang up the phone. My sister asked her what Tony said. Her response? He’ll call back. That was when we realized no one was home and she was just talking into the phone this entire time! We just roared!! So she was having her own conversation and really enjoying the company!