Bow Watches the Facebook Movie

Yesterday was another snow day. School was canceled in advance, and then later it started to snow.

At first it was just a little snow, and then it started piling up. But in the woods, there were still birds calling.

There was no possibility of going outside. The outer pen was white with it. The bench was piled up.

To entertain Bow, I tried the usual standbys. I offered some paper and a pen to draw with. He scribbled a little and got tired of that. I offered paints and a brush. He decided he wanted to taste the yellow paint, so I quickly took it away. Finally, Mark Zuckerberg announced to us that he and his team had made a movie about our participation on Facebook.

Mark, who looks to be about fifteen, has been operating Facebook for ten years now. Bow and I have been on Facebook for five. We were bored, and it was a snow day, so I decided to show Bow the video. To help him feel more involved, I was going to let him click on play.

Bow liked clicking so much, that he began trying to use the entire keyboard, and when eventually I suggested he turn it off himself, a lot more clicking and typing ensued. I wish we could harness this interest of Bow's in some useful way, but so far, he never seems to type when it shows up on the screen, nor will he stop, if left to his own devices, until the computer is disabled. He has his own touchscreen computer, but refuses to use it when it is offered. So I am at a loss as to what to do, even though I feel there is great potential just below the surface.

Bow is literate and likes computers, and yet still he will not type when asked to type, nor refrain from typing when it is not the right time. I wish we could ask our friend Mark Zuckerberg for help with this! I'm sure he could come up with something so diabolical that even Bow would be motivated to use it.