hello and welcome to navigate autism i'm jane lim britton your host today we're going to do something very different i'm bringing you home with me so that you get a chance to see what it's like living with autism i'm sharing with you th clips that i took using facebook live over the holidays with my son william and we are decorating the house wrapping presents and even creating his christmas list now there are times that he's going to walk away and that he will even tell me goodbye and i walk away and what i do is i use those opportunities to share with you why i'm doing different things with him how it's working and basically how i'm inspiring him to interact with me and i think that should go  one more new you know i remember a time not too long ago that i had to use this big camera to take videos like that but now all i use as my phone is so much fun that if you really were a guest in my home i would offer you a drink so let's head over to the kitchen and see what we can find i'm here today to talk to you a little bit about some healthy drinks so you can get a little bit extra nutrition when you give your child a train our first group we have today is a mixture of green tea and through to snow all our kids agree to our drinks is there are such couple side benefits that we get from the green tea read tea house reduce inflammation which a lot of our kids struggle with and it also helps increase brain function and finally it really helps with the immune system so it leads to better dental health it also gets colds and then it's like that but the real reason we love it is green tea helps you burn fat and calories and especially effective burning fact in the stomach  trace elements in it that are really healthy for you most notably irene and it's lower on the glycaemic scale so it's not as potent as claimed by sugar or the sugars that a lot of three main factors put in their drinks and the great thing about  specifically google the french paradox and the give you tons of things that can make housewives good for you so that's a little bit of health and how you can make your drinks healthier with your child so let's grab ourselves a don't get him to come back i've written a few things on these pieces of paper to you choices and these are things i know you might like made up like but i want you to help and it's not what you want so let's just let you choose a few things how there we go good job right here all right let's take that to show me what you want to say on your computer have  but you give me what you just showed who was cool or not oh my goodness i knew you were going to choose that plastic chicken we used to play with the chicken and lots of out there remains and activities right all the kids loved it you know what it is not asked to chicken right but not there wherever you want so the reason i wanted to do this is just to show you how we invite william she uses voice and so as you heard he was talking a little bit which is great and what he did was celebrating and responding by giving him what he wanted but sometimes that isn't as easy so i have choices and i really wanted to know what he wants for christmas i kind of had some ideas and yes i came up with these suggestions but you know i'm a chance to express himself and as you heard me most of the time i wasn't asking questions i was giving choices and letting him do things he can easily do that can wait and you know  kitchen and that's i'm farai because for me the most important thing is to have an interaction with him and if he didn't want it might that's totally fine i was prepared to just not do anything with him but i wanted to give it a try and that's why i took the activity to him and thank you for hanging out with me and william today i really do enjoy sharing with you not only how i live with autism but also how i navigate autism if you'd like to see more videos of me and william head over to my facebook page navigate autism i have over fifty facebook like videos that i've shared there of not only me and william hanging out together but also for me and my husband so you can get a husband wife as well as a father's perspective and i have a lot of videos where i offer parenting coaching tips is this so much fun today sharing my home videos with you and i look forward to seeing you next time on navigate autism with ja