Thanks for the beautiful comments you all made, it touched my heart. I’ve already had a number of people approach me about possible work with children/schools/youth organisations – that mum is well connected and she’s a walking advert. Her son by the way is insisting on going to the park everyday to play with more dogs!
One of the things that surprised me is how much less programming he had, like Shalee said. As a result he was sort of ‘right here’ with me in his communications, which made the work relatively easy. The testimonial I got from the mum included this “It was interesting for me and mind-blowing fun for a six year old”. Well it was mind-blowing fun for me too, I can assure you 🙂