I worked from home PT with my older ds...hard! I also felt guilty with the pbskids TV watching - but I do really think he learned a lot...a LOT from it. My dd2 is more content to play alone than DS. She still loves to take objects from one container, sort them or count them, put them in another container...rinse and repeat. Right now she's doing that with her hair barretts, but she'll do it with match game cards, flash cards, colored macaroni (she doesn't put things in her mouth...YMMV). She also loves playing games on my Kindle (puzzles, match games, early reading and counting). She "tries" to play Angry Birds like ds, but isn't quite there yet. Honestly, I try to make the mort of naptime. With my ds, I did a lot of late-late night work.
