Ok, so in a previous post, I discussed how my almost-11-year-old dear son has taken wishing, wanting, visualizing and The Secret to a whole new level.  

When we last left off, we were driving to South Carolina to a wedding. I didn’t know it, but he had watched The Secret not one, not two but three times in the car (great supervision on my part, I know).

With thoughts of free bicycles, this free retail catalog called Life and the Law of Attraction swirling in his head, he began to think of all the amazing things that would be his if he just thought and wished the right way.

Over the course of the few hours we were dancing the night away at the wedding, my son (in the hotel room down the hall) managed to do the following:

1) Opened and somehow logged on to my laptop (in other words, hacked into it)

2) Located and opened PowerPoint, a program he had never used before

3) Taught himself PowerPoint

4) Created a 50+ slide PP presentation entitled “My Wish List” complete with dancing and rotating text, images galore and pricing, details and direct links to each and every item listed, which included multiple (at least 20) video game-related items, guitar-related items, bedroom furniture items and much more. (He also included wish list items that were clearly dictated by his sister including “Family Dog” – the link there was to local Humane Society. Oy.)

Oh and by the way, he also created a very intricate and detailed “Credits” section at the end where he listed about 10 areas (Director, Writer, Creative Director, etc.) and gave himself, each time under a different nickname, the credit.

I was so thrilled that my wonda-ful son taught himself PowerPoint and created something so original just based on an idea and desire(s) he had. I started thinking maybe I should enroll him in a high-tech computer class or somehow harness this brain power…whatta genius, right?

But then the trouble started…he began to work on his Wish List file day and night for weeks and weeks. Literally. Every day, like clockwork, he sends me the most updated and up-to-date version. And he expects me to read through every slide, slide after slide, every time it’s updated providing relevant comments on every minor change and new trick he implements.

And that’s where we stand now. This is still going on. E-mails are coming every single day. PowerPoint is being updated every single day. And my boy is visualizing, visualizing, visualizing. And believing, believing, believing.

Maybe he knows more than I ever will. We’ll see.

Filed under: just be happy, kids